Utah Highway Dept Pit No. 23055

Past Producer in Tooele 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. 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. 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 10101712
MRDS ID D007752
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Highway Dept Pit No. 23055

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.53749, 40.8716 (WGS84)
Elevation 1305
Relative position 9,700 FEET WNW OF STANSBURY PEAK IN 34, T2N, R6W

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Corral Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002N 006W 29 NE OF SW SE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • POORLY SORTED, INTERBEDDED SAND AND SILT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Sand Ore
Clay Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE CRUSHING 3"=4
Result 1"=33
Result AFTER: 1"=100
Result 1/2":78
Result #4:44
Result #8:31
Result #50:15
Result #200:11.1
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 21.5
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: NP
Result SWELL: .007

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Rock unit name Lake Bonneville Formation
    Rock description Lake Bonneville Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) Prospect Mountain Quartzite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 304.8M
    Width 304.8M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Terrace

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Stansbury Island

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner E. A. Castagno

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION FIGURES AVAILABLE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO RESOURCE FIGURES AVAILABLE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1.421HA
    Overall length 150M
    Overall width 137.16M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 3 YDS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY OF TOOELE COUNTY, 1967

  • Deposit

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

  • Deposit

    UT. DEPT. OF HWYS, 1967, MATERIALS INVENTORY: TOOELE, CO.

  • Deposit

    1964 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAY

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COMMODITY IS ANGULAR TO ROUNDED, EQUANT AND TABULAR IN SHAPE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Stegan, Ralph J. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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