Skinners Peak Gravel Pit No 5

Past Producer in Juab 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012104
MRDS ID D007488
Record type Site
Current site name Skinners Peak Gravel Pit No 5

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.96078, 39.37857 (WGS84)
Elevation 1558
Relative position 5500 FT NORTH OF PAINTED ROCKS PROSPECT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Skinner Peaks(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Manti(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(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 Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 016S 001W 31 NE OF NE OF NE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • VOLCANIC PEBBLES, INTERBEDDED WITH SAND & CLAY, POORLY SORTED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand 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) -111.96078, 39.37857

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sevier Orogenic Belt

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Length 328.08M
    Width 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • River Terrace

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner State Land Board

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.08HA
    Overall length 40M
    Overall width 21.95M

Comments on the workings information

  • CONSISTS OF 2 PITS-ONE 40 X 24 X 1.5 YDS; THE OTHER 20 X 35 X 1.5 YDS; AVERAGE DEPTH 1.5 YDS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CONNELLY, M. P., 1980, UT. GEOL. & MINERAL SURVEY-ON SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Production

    CONNELLY, M.P., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT. GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VOLCANIC PEBBLES-SUBANGULAR TO SUBROUNDED SOME COBBLES INTERBEDDED WITH SAND & SOME CLAY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1980 Connelly, Michael P. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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