Devils Kitchen North Borrow Pit

Past Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodity Volcanic Materials
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  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 10101529
MRDS ID D004545
Record type Site
Current site name Devils Kitchen North Borrow Pit
Alternate or previous names Pavant Butte South Borrow Pit #1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.50579, 39.04968 (WGS84)
Elevation 1442
Relative position 1.83 MILES NORTH OF DEVILS KITCHEN RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pahvant Butte South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Beaver(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 020S 006W 27 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4, NE 1/4, NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Volcanic Materials Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinders Ore
Pumice Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Glassy Rock > Pumice
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.50579, 39.04968

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 304.8M
    Width 182.88M
    Depth to top 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Volcanic Flow

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 0.543HA
    Overall length 145M
    Overall width 54.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 1YD; ARE PIT WITHIN AREA AT 30YDS X 30YDS X 3YDS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STEGEN R.J., 1979, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY; ON SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Production

    STEGAN, R.J., 1979

  • Reserve-Resource

    STEGEN; R.J., 1979

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCORACEOUS, EQUANT; DEPOSIT TERMINATED ON NORTH SOUTH AND EAST BY MASSIVE BASALT FLOW.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Stegan, Ralph J. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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