Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20049

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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015519
MRDS ID DB01350
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20049

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.71188, 39.14635 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 1 1/2 MILES NORTH OF MAYFIELD

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 019S 002E 20 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUB: NW 1/4 SW 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC. 20

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gravel Ore

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 100 % ON 1 IN, 69.2 % ON NO. 4
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 38.2
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: 12.6
Result SWELL: 0.3
Result AASHO CLASS: A-2-6

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Slope Wash Colluvium
    Rock description Slope Wash Colluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.71188, 39.14635

Economic information

Geologic structures

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

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 328.08M
    Width 36.58M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 1.83M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Angus Hansen

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.251HA
    Overall length 75M
    Overall width 36.58M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, 1966

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, 1966 , MATERIALS INVENTORY: SANPETE AND SEVIER COUNTIE

  • 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.