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Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20056

Past Producer in Sanpete county in Utah, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088262
MRDS ID DB01392
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20056

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.83271, 39.17329 (WGS84)
Elevation 1591
Relative position 1.2 MILE NW GUNNISON CITY PARK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gunnison(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Manti(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 019S 001E 08 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SE 1/4 SW 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC. 08

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gravel Ore
Quartzite Ore

Analytical data

Result SEIVE ANALYSIS: 23.5 % GREATER THAN 1 IN., 76.5 % ON 1 IN., 44.6 % ON NO. 4
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 26.0
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: 6.3
Result SWELL: 0.38
Result AASHO CLASS: A-1-B

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit
    Rock unit name Alluvial Fan Gravels
    Rock description Alluvial Fan Gravels
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.83271, 39.17329
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Gunnison Plateau Syncline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Normal Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 136.7M
    Width 54.86M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 4.57M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • River Channel In Alluvial Fan

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.251HA
    Overall length 60M
    Overall width 45.72M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, 1966

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, 1966 , MATERIALS INVENTORY, SANPETE AND SEVIER COUNTIES

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1978 Dollar, Robert S. Bureau of Land Management

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