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Sixmile Point Gravel Pit

Past 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. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  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 10010662
MRDS ID D004530
Record type Site
Current site name Sixmile Point Gravel Pit
Alternate or previous names Tabernacle Hill Gravel Pit #3
Related records 10252077

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.52135, 38.77496 (WGS84)
Elevation 1542
Relative position 1,000 FEET NORTH OF SIXMILE POINT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sixmile Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Beaver(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 023S 006W 34 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4, NW 1/4, NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • VERY FEW BOULDERS AND COBBLES, EXTENSIVE INTERBEDS OF SAND, SILT AND SOME CLAY

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Sandstone Ore
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) -112.52135, 38.77496
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 457.2M
    Width 304.8M
    Depth to top 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Fan

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

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 0.936HA
    Overall length 160M
    Overall width 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 2 YDS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, 1966, MATERIALS AND RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY SECTION: MILLARD COUNTY

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979 GEOLOGIST

  • Reserve-Resource

    STEGEN R.J. 1979 GEOLOGIST

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ANGULAR TO SUBROUNDED, EQUANT AND TABULAR, EXTENSIVE INTERBEDS OF SAND, SILT, AND SOME 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.

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