Borrow Pit #27022 Utah Dept of Highways

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011058
MRDS ID D005262
Record type Site
Current site name Borrow Pit #27022 Utah Dept of Highways

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.17885, 37.11805 (WGS84)
Elevation 1410
Relative position 3.4 MILES NORTHWEST OF LITTLE CREEK KNOLL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washington(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Little Creek Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saint George(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Washington

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 042S 012W 23 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SW 1/4 NW 1/4 SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand Ore

Analytical data

Result BEFORE CRUSHING GT 3" 5.4%, 1" 16.3%, AFTER CRUSHING-1", 1"100, #4 73.3, #10 65.2, #40 39.0, #200 15.6, LIQUID LIMIT 14.9, PLASTICITY INDEX N.P., SWELL .010, A.A.S.H.O. A-1-B

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Rock unit name Alluvium
    Rock description Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.17885, 37.11805

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 1093.6M
    Width 182.88M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Channel

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

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Darwin Ballard

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.004HA
    Overall width 137.16M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STATE OF UTAH HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, MATERIALS & RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY-WASHINGTON CO

  • Deposit

    1959 DIREX UTAH STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY

  • Production

    L.I. PERRY 1979

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Perry, Lee I. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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