Utah Dept of Highways Gravel Pit #14077

Past Producer in Millard 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. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011328
MRDS ID D005955
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept of Highways Gravel Pit #14077

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.80302, 38.98163 (WGS84)
Elevation 1443
Relative position 0.8 MILES NORTH OF BORDEN BASIN RESEVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Borden(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

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 021S;021S 008W;009W 18,13 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • 1) SW 1/4, SW 1/4, SW 1/4, SEC 18 T21S R8W

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOOD GRAVEL

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Gangue

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 73"-0
Result GREATER THAN 1"-6.8
Result 1"-100
Result NO 4:48.3
Result NO 10-31.3
Result NO 4-20.6
Result NO 200-11.1
Result LIQUID LIMIT-19.6
Result PLASTICITY INDEX-N P
Result SWELL-.006
Result A S A H O CLASS A-1-A

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.80302, 38.98163

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.22M
    Depth to top 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Plain

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • CUMMULATIVE PRODUCTION FIGURES EXCEED HIGHWAY DEPT RESERVES FIGURE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 7.416HA
    Overall length 330M
    Overall width 228.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • AV DEPTH 2 YDS, ADJACENT PIT AT 250 YDS X 165 YDS X 2 YDS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT OF HIGHWAYS 1966 MATERIALS SURVEY-MILLARD CO

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS & RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY SECTION: MILLARD COUNT

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT OF HIGHWAY'S MATERIAL IN

  • Production

    STEGEN, R J, 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT GEOL AND MIN SUR

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUB-ROUNDED TO WELL-ROUNDED TABULAR WITH SOME EQUANT SHAPE; DEPOSIT CONTAINS INTERBEDDED SAND, SILT, AND CLAY, AND IS FLOORED BY LAKE CLAYS

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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