Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04033

Past Producer in Carbon 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. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105983
MRDS ID W026461
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04033

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.50102, 39.47163 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WELLINGTON, UTAH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mounds(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Huntington(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Price(hydrologic unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 015S 013E 31 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NE 1/4 , SW 1/4 , SE 1/4 , SEC 31

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE CRUSHING, GREATER THAN 3 INCH - 0.0 % GREATER THAN 1 INCH - 38.7 %, PERCENT PASSING AFTER CRUSHING - 1 INCH - 100 %, NO. 4 - 32.2 % NO. 10 - 25.7 %, NO. 40 - 18.3 %, NO. 200 - 4.6 % LIQUID LIMIT - 19.4 %, PLASTICITY INDEX - N.P., SWELL - .01 %, A.A.S.H.O. CLASSIFICATION - A-1-A.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Mancos Shale

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 213.36M
    Width 121.92M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fluvial Environment

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Wellington Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.606HA
    Overall length 150M
    Overall width 132.59M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, 1965, MATERIALS INVENTORY FOR CARBON AND EMERY COUNTIES, UTAH: UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS

  • Production

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1977

  • Reserve-Resource

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, 1965

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1977 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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