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Meadow West 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. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010664
MRDS ID D004535
Record type Site
Current site name Meadow West Gravel Pit
Alternate or previous names Fillmore Gravel Pit #14
Related records 10226780

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.43162, 38.88329 (WGS84)
Elevation 1451
Relative position 2.5 MILES WNW OF MEADOW CEMETARY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Meadow(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 022S 005W 20 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4, NE 1/4, SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • INTERBEDDED SAND AND SILT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Sandstone Ore

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) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.43162, 38.88329
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 3218.6M
    Width 152.4M
    Depth to top 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Bar

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Area 2.224HA
    Overall length 600M
    Overall width 36.58M

Comments on the workings information

  • CUT BANK FOLLOWING LAKE BAR, ADJACIENT PITS AT 130 YDS X 60 YDS X 1 YD (25) AND 65 YD X 30 YD X 1 YD (20); AVERAGE DEPTH OF LARGEST PIT IS 2 YDS (20%)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    STEGEN R.J. 1979

  • Reserve-Resource

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979, GEOLOGIST

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ROUNDED TO WELL ROUNDED, EQUANT AND TABULAR, INTERBEDDED SAND AND SILT

Reporter information

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

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