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Tintic Junction Gravel Pit4

Occurrence in Juab 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. Mining district
  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 10012627
MRDS ID D008355
Record type Site
Current site name Tintic Junction Gravel Pit4

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.12746, 39.87884 (WGS84)
Elevation 1811
Relative position 8,700 FEET SSE OF SILVER CITY CENTARY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tintic Junction(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(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)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 011S 003W 12 SW OF NW OF SE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • POORLY SORTED, NUMEROUS LARGE BOULDERS, POOR GRAVEL

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand Ore
Clay Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.12746, 39.87884
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 274.32M
    Width 121.92M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Fan

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Main Tintic District

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 0.242HA
    Overall length 45M
    Overall width 36.58M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 2 YDS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979, ON SITE INVESTGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MILLERAL SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, 1965, MATERIALS INVENTORY, UTAH COUNTY

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP MORRIS, H.T., BULL. 1142-

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J. 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COMMODY IS ANGULOR TO SUB ANGULAR, PREDOMINATELY EQUANT WITH SAME TABULAR, EXTENSIVE SAND, SILT AND LARGE BOULDERS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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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