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Heber City Borrow Pit. #1

Past Producer in Wasatch 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. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042014
MRDS ID M058156
Record type Site
Current site name Heber City Borrow Pit. #1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.39606, 40.49605 (WGS84)
Elevation 1737
Relative position 5000 FT S 81 E OF HIGHWAY JUNCTION 189 AND 40

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wasatch(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Charleston(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Provo(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Provo(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Wasatch

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 004S 005E 05 NE OF SE OF SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1977)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Sandstone Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.39606, 40.49605
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Depth to bottom 2.74M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Fan

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Heber Valley

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.669HA
    Overall length 100M
    Overall width 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • RESIDENCE OCCUPIES NORTHWEST CORNER OF PIT; PIT BEING USED AS LANDFILL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY, WASATCH COUNTY

  • Deposit

    SOMMER, S.N., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POORLY SORTED; ROUNDED TO SUBROUNDED PARTICLES; QUARTZITE AND SANDSTONE DOMINATE WITH MINOR AMOUNTS OF LIMESTONE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1981 Sommer, Steven N. (Tripp, Bryce T.) Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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

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