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Temple Hill Quarries

Past Producer in Sanpete county in Utah, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015513
MRDS ID DB01343
Record type Site
Current site name Temple Hill Quarries
Related records 10203070

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.62827, 39.27302 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 1500 FEET E OF MANTI TEMPLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Manti(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Manti(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Pitch(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 Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 018S 003E 06 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 SE 1/4 SW 1/4 SEC. 06

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

Analytical data

Result 43.5 % CAO, 6.2 % MGO, 7.0 % INSOLUABLE, 6.0 % SIO2, 1.0 % FE2O3, AL2O3, 42.0 % IGNITION LOSS.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Green River Formation
    Rock description Green River Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wasatch Monocline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 2.44M
    Length 1219.2M
    Depth to top 6.1M
    Depth to bottom 8.53M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THIS IS HIGH QUALITY STONE WHICH MAKES BEAUTIFUL SURFACES ON BUILDINGS.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1.665HA
    Overall length 1158.24M
    Overall width 15.24M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: PRATT AND CALLAGHAN, LAND AND MINERAL RESOURCES SANPETE COUNTY, 1966

  • Deposit

    PRATT, A. P., AND CALLAGHAN, 1970 , LAND AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SANPETE COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY BULL. 85

  • Production

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1978 Dollar, Robert S. Bureau of Land Management

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