Utah Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 23049

Past Producer in Tooele 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  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 10012677
MRDS ID D008494
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 23049
Related records 10130105

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.73499, 40.55576 (WGS84)
Elevation 1414
Relative position 7000 FEET WNW OF FLUX

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salt Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Skull Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 001S 007W 36 W2 OF NW OF SE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • DOMINANTLY L.S. AND DOLO. PEBBLES AND COBBLES, MED. SORTED.

Analytical data

Result SEIVE ANALYSIS IN PERCENT: BEFORE CRUSHING G.T. 3IN=0, G.T. 1IN=13
Result AFTER CRUSHING TO 1IN MAX 1IN=87, 1/2 IN.=87, NO. 4=65, NO.8=57, NO.50=42, NO.200=29
Result LIQ LIMIT=20.0, SWELL=0.30

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) -112.73499, 40.55576

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range-Stansbury Mts.
Type of structure Local
Structure description East-Draining Valley

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Dip 5E
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 656.16M
    Width 228.6M
    Depth to top 0.3M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Free Coinage

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Howell Livestock

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 75M
    Overall width 54.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 3 1/2 YDS. WORKINGS FLOORED BY SILT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UT DEPT HWYS, 1966, MATER. INVENTORY OF TOOELE CO.

  • Deposit

    UT STATE DEPT. HWYS; 1966, MATER. RESEARCH DIV.: MATERIALS INVENTORY TOOELE CO.

  • Deposit

    KRUPICKA, D.C., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SUR.

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UT STATE DEPT. HWY

  • Production

    KRUPICKA, D.C., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ANGULAR TO SUB-ROUNDED CARBONATE PEBBLES AND COBBLES. ABUNDANT SAND, SILT AND CLAY INTERBEDDING.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1980 Kurpicka, Daniel C. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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