Utah Department of Highways Pit #20006

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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015552
MRDS ID DB01431
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Department of Highways Pit #20006

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.3127, 39.67968 (WGS84)
Elevation 2682
Relative position AT INTERSECTION OF SKYLINE DRIVE AND STATE ROUTE 31

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fairview Lakes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nephi(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

Manti-La Sal National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 013S 005E 24 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUB.: SE 1/4 SW 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC. 24

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 100 % ON 1 IN., 86.1 % ON 1/2 IN., 56.9% ON NO. 4
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 200
Result PLASTICITY: NP
Result SWELL: 0.011
Result AASHO CLASS: A-1-A
Result ABR 500 REV: 20.0

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Flagstaff Limestone
    Rock description Flagstaff Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.3127, 39.67968

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wasatch Monocline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Normal Faulting, Folding

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 3.02M
    Length 109.36M
    Width 91.44M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 3.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Forest Service

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 DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS MATERIALS INVENTORY, 1966

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, 1960 , MATERIALS INVENTORY, SANPETE AND SEVIER COUNTIE

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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