Brush Wellman Road Gravel Pit #2

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. 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 10106649
MRDS ID D006171
Record type Site
Current site name Brush Wellman Road Gravel Pit #2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.63052, 39.53606 (WGS84)
Elevation 1407
Relative position 7.5 MILES SSE OF BAKER HOT SPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Baker Hot Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 015S 007W 10 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4, NW 1/4, NW 1/4 SECTION 10.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FAIR TO POOR GRAVEL MATERIAL; ABUNDANT CLAY, SILT, & SAND PRESENT.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.63052, 39.53606

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Bar

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Brush Wellman Road

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 1.756HA
    Overall length 350M
    Overall width 54.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • AV. DEPTH 1 YARD.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS & RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY SECTION: MILLARD COUNTY

  • Production

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

  • Reserve-Resource

    STEGEN R.J., 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEO. AND MIN. SUR.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ROUNDED TO WELL-ROUNDED, EQUANT & TABULAR PEBBLES

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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