Utah Dept. Highways Pit #16014

Occurrence in Piute 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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015711
MRDS ID DB01853
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit #16014

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.15688, 38.20358 (WGS84)
Elevation 1865
Relative position 9000 FT ESE OF KINGSTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Junction(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

East Fork Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 030S 003W 13 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUBDIVISION: NE 1/4 SW 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC. 13

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand and Gravel Ore

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 100 % ON 1 IN., 83 % ON 1/2 IN., 53 % ON NO. 4
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 25
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: NP
Result SWELL: .03
Result AASHO CLASS: A-1-A
Result ABR 500 REV: 20

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Qat Alluvial Fan Gravels
    Rock description Qat Alluvial Fan Gravels
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.15688, 38.20358

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 109.36M
    Width 91.44M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 3.66M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Channel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY: PIUTE COUNTY

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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