Mayfield Gravel Pit

Past Producer in Sanpete 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015518
MRDS ID DB01349
Record type Site
Current site name Mayfield Gravel Pit
Related records 10252232

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.73021, 39.13135 (WGS84)
Elevation 1695
Relative position 1.2 MILES NW MAYFIELD POST OFFICE ON STATE ROUTE 137

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sterling(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)

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 Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 019S 002E 30 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUB.: NE 1/4 SW 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC. 30

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gravel Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit
    Rock unit name Terrace Gravels
    Rock description Terrace Gravels
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.73021, 39.13135

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Normal Faulting, Thrust Faults
Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sanpete Sevier Valley Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 9.14M
    Length 191.38M
    Width 91.44M
    Depth to top 0.3M
    Depth to bottom 9.45M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Channels

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1968

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner State Highway Department
  • Type Owner
    Owner Sorenson

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.502HA
    Overall length 100M
    Overall width 54.86M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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