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Utah Dept. Highways Pit #16019

Occurrence in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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  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. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015728
MRDS ID DB01875
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit #16019

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.0191, 38.1608 (WGS84)
Elevation 1931
Relative position 2300 FT. SSE OF BM 6377 LOCATED ON OTTER CREEK DAM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Phonolite Hill(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 030S 002W 28 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUBDIVISION: SW 1/4 SE 1/4 SW 1/4 SEC. 28

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., 51 % ON NO. 4
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 22
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: 3
Result SWELL: .012
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 Deposits
    Rock description Qat Alluvial Deposits
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Thickness 2.74M
    Length 109.36M
    Width 54.86M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 2.74M

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 Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Savage, A.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY: PIUTE, WAYNE, GARFIELD & KANE COUNTIES

  • 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

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

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