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Ut Dept. of Hyws. Gravel Pit #18099

Past 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. 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 10101758
MRDS ID D008627
Record type Site
Current site name Ut Dept. of Hyws. Gravel Pit #18099

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.17052, 40.71522 (WGS84)
Elevation 1457
Relative position 2400 FT S51W OF WATER TANKS IN SECTION 22

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Farnsworth Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(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 001S 003W 22 NW OF SE OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1972 EDITION

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 (AFTER CRUSHING TO 1 IN. MAX) 100% 1 IN.
Result 88.1% 3/4 IN.
Result 63.8% 1/2 IN.
Result 18% NO 4
Result 9.9% NO. 10
Result 1.9% NO. 200

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.17052, 40.71522
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Depth to bottom 3.66M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Bonneville Shoreline

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Garfield Smelter Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Kennecott Copper Corp.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • UT. DEPT OF HYWS., 1964, P. 14

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.033HA
    Overall length 25M
    Overall width 14.63M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UT. DEPT. OF HWYS, 1964, MATERIALS INVENTORY, SALT LAKE COUNTY

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    DOMMER, S. N., 1981 ON SITE INVESTIGATION, UGMS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUBROUNDED, EQUANT, POOR SORTED MATERIAL WITH 20 PERCENT CLASTS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-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.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Kennecott Copper Corp. — acquired by Subsidiary of Rio Tinto (1989)
    Acquired by RTZ (now Rio Tinto) in 1989. Continues to operate the Bingham Canyon mine and other assets under the Kennecott name.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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