Cove Fort Nw Gravel Pit

Past 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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010656
MRDS ID D004516
Record type Site
Current site name Cove Fort Nw Gravel Pit
Alternate or previous names Cove Fort Gravel Pit #7
Related records 10203060

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.62246, 38.61468 (WGS84)
Elevation 1811
Relative position 3.40 MILES NORTH OF CINDER CRATER

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

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 025S 007W 22 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4, SE 1/4, SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Gangue

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) -112.62246, 38.61468

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 2.44M
    Length 182.88M
    Width 91.44M
    Depth to top 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • River Terrace

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Interstate 15

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.251HA
    Overall length 75M
    Overall width 36.58M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH YD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    STEGAN R, 1979

  • Reserve-Resource

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY OF MILLARD COUNTY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUBANGULAR TO ROUNDED, EQUANT AND TABULAR INTERBEDS OF SAND, SILT AND CLAY

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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