Borrow Pit

Past 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. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010614
MRDS ID D004423
Record type Site
Current site name Borrow Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.60746, 38.23858 (WGS84)
Elevation 1847
Relative position 4250 FT ESE OF THE INTERSECTION OF KANE CYN & OWENS DISTRICT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kane 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 029S 007W 35 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4, NW 1/4, SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.60746, 38.23858

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin/Plateau Transition

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 3048M
    Width 304.8M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 6.1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • River Terrace

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall width 15.24M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, UTAH GEOL. & MINERAL SURVEY: ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Production

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, GEOLOGIST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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