Victory Road Lime Pit.

Past Producer in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodity Limestone, General
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088659
MRDS ID M058039
Record type Site
Current site name Victory Road Lime Pit.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.89886, 40.79411 (WGS84)
Elevation 1387
Relative position 2,200 FT DUE WEST OF ENSIGN PEAK

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 North(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 001N 001W 25 N2 OF SW OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Madison Limestone
    Rock description Madison Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.89886, 40.79411

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Strike EAST TO WEST
    Dip 15 SOUTH
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 18.29M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Hot Springs Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.441HA
    Overall length 110M
    Overall width 54.86M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, A.L., 1964, GEOLOGY OF SALT LAKE COUNTY: UGMS BULL. 69, 190 P.

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1981

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FINELY, CRYSTALLINE; SOME LAYERS FOSSILIFEROUS; WORM BORROUGHS; THICK BEDDED TO MASSIVE

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.