Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20002

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 10015550
MRDS ID DB01424
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20002

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.48799, 39.73106 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position 0.8 MILE SOUTH OF MOUTH TO JOSEPHINE HOLLOW

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fairview(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nephi(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spanish Fork(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 012S 004E 32,33 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 NW 1/4 SW 1/4 OF SECTION 33

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., 75.3 % ON 1/2 IN., 48.9 % ON #4
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 20.3
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: NP
Result SWELL: 0.030
Result AASHO CLASS: A-1-A
Result ABR. 500 REV.: 22.0

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.48799, 39.73106

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Normal Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 328.08M
    Width 27.43M
    Depth to top 0.61M
    Depth to bottom 4.27M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • River Terraces

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 Lionel Peterson, Lorna Terry

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.293HA
    Overall length 100M
    Overall width 32M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS MINERALS INVENTORY, 1966

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY, SANPETE AND SEVIER COUNTIES, 1966

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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