Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 01048

Producer in Beaver 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. Geologic structures
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010602
MRDS ID D004409
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 01048

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.97469, 38.38218 (WGS84)
Elevation 1536
Relative position 3 MILES EAST OF MILFORD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ranch Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 010W 16 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS NE 1/4 NE 1/4 NE 1/4 SECTION 16.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

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) Pleistocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Mineral Mtns

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR BLANKET
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 914.4M
    Width 304.8M
    Depth to top 0.61M
    Depth to bottom 4.57M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Terrace Sediments

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Granite

Land status

Ownership category County

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Beaver County

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.219HA
    Overall length 152.4M
    Overall width 152.4M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, GEOLOGIST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-JUL-1985 Shubat, Michael A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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