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Snider Gravel Pit

Producer in Salt Lake 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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088652
MRDS ID M058021
Record type Site
Current site name Snider Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.96997, 40.64855 (WGS84)
Elevation 1384
Relative position 5000 FT SOUTH 54 DEG. EAST OF KEARNS BALL PARK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salt Lake City South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jordan(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Salt Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002S 001W 17 SE OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1977)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore
Quartzite Ore
Sandstone Ore

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS 1 IN., 100.0%
Result 3/4 IN., 85.9%
Result 1/2 IN., 64.2%
Result NO. 4, 26.6%
Result NO. 10, 11.9%
Result NO. 200, 3.2%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Depth to top 5M
    Depth to bottom 40M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Bonneville Shoreline

Comments on the geologic information

  • LAKE BONNEVILLE SHORELINE GRAVELS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Kearns Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • UTAH STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, 1964, P. 13

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 9.365HA
    Overall length 800M
    Overall width 182.88M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH HIGHWAY DEPT., 1964, MATERIALS INVENTORY, SALT LAKE CO.

  • Deposit

    06-15-1971, CONSERVATION DIVISION COMP.

  • Deposit

    SOMMER, S.N., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Production

    SOMMER, S.N., 1981

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOOD SORTED, SUBROUNDED, EQUANT MATERIALS WITH 50% CLASTS
Deposit SIEVE ANALYSIS IS A AVERAGE OF THREE PITS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1981 Sommer, Steven N. (Tripp, Bryce T.) Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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