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Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 14047

Producer in Millard 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 10107495
MRDS ID D004522
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 14047

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.60273, 38.59829 (WGS84)
Elevation 1823
Relative position 1.20 MILES WEST OF COVE FORT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cove Fort(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaver Bottoms-Upper 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 025S 007W 35 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NW 1/4 NE 1/4 NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FAIR GRAVEL, INTERBEDDED SAND AND SILT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Clay Gangue

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 1":100
Result NO.4:50.2
Result NO. 10:40.0
Result #40:25.6
Result #200:3.7
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 17.6
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: N.P.
Result SWELL: .007
Result 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 Alluvium
    Rock description Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.60273, 38.59829
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 3.05M
    Depth to top 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • River Terrace

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Interstate 15

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Millard County

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THE CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION FIGURE EXCEEDS THE HIGHWAY DEPT. RESERVES ESTIMATE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 6.812HA
    Overall length 350M
    Overall width 100.58M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 2 YDS, ADJACIENT PITS AT: 180 YDS X 80 YD X 2 YDS (20%); 200 YDS X 80 YDS X 1 YD (20%); 250 X 60 X 2 (20%); 200 X 70 X 2 (25%)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL SURVEY OF MILLARD COUNTY

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS & RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY, 1966 SECTION: MILLARD COUNT

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL INVENTOR

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979 GEOLOGIST

  • Reserve-Resource

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS MATERIAL INVENTORY OF MILLARD COUNTY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUBROUNDED TO WELL ROUNDED, EQUANT AND TABULAR, DEPOSIT CONTAINS INTERBEDDED SAND AND SILT, AND ALSO THE DEPOSIT IS FLOORED BY CLAY

Reporter information

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

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