Halfway Summit Borrow Pit

Past Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101512
MRDS ID D004348
Record type Site
Current site name Halfway Summit Borrow Pit
Related records 10154905

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.84361, 38.62245 (WGS84)
Elevation 1920
Relative position HALFWAY SUMMIT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Halfway Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pine Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 025S 018W 27 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NW1/4, NE1/4, NE1/4 SEC. 27

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.84361, 38.62245

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR/BLANKET
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 91.44M
    Width 30.48M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 6.1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Zone Of Carbonates With Volcanics

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Halfway Summit (Area)

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

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

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.438HA
    Overall length 121.92M
    Overall width 15.24M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, UT. GEOL. & MINERAL SURVEY: ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Production

    EVERTS, M.L, 1979, GEOLOGIST.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BOULDERS, PEBBLES, COBBLES OF CARBONATE ORIGIN WITH VOLCANICS, ANG-TO RND, SANDY & SLTY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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