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Tintic Junction Borrow Pit3

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012628
MRDS ID D008356
Record type Site
Current site name Tintic Junction Borrow Pit3

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.13135, 39.89995 (WGS84)
Elevation 1826
Relative position 900 FEET SOUTH OF SILVER CITY CEMETARY

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 003N 011S 01 NE OF SW OF NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • POORLY SORTED, INTERBEDDED SAND AND SILT, NUMEROUS LARGE BOULDERS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand Ore

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) -112.13135, 39.89995
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 3.05M
    Length 152.4M
    Width 30.48M
    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 Mai N Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.117HA
    Overall length 30M
    Overall width 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 2 YDS, ADJACIENT PIT EAST AT 30 Y X 20 Y X 1 YD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STEGEN, R.J, 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COMMODY IS SUBANGULAR TO SUBROUNDED, PREDOMINATELY EQUANT. INTERBEDS OF SAND AND SILT.

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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