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Utah Dept Highways Pit No. 10029

Occurrence in Grand 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078696
MRDS ID W027207
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept Highways Pit No. 10029

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.45514, 38.68054 (WGS84)
Elevation 1268
Relative position APPROX. .25 MILE EAST OF THE WHITE RANCH, 2.5 MILES WEST OF PARRIOT MESA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Bend(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Colorado-Kane Springs(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Grand

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 024S 022E 35 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: NE 1/4 NE 1/4 NW 1/4 OF SECTION 35

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Tertiary

Analytical data

Result AASHO CLASSIFICATION A-1-A
Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: RETAINED ON 3 INCH SIEVE BEFORE CRUSHING 23.4 %, RETAINED ON 1 INCH SIEVE 46.7 %
Result (AFTER CRUSHING SIEVE ANALYSIS) 100 % PASS 1 INCH, UNKNOWN THROUGH 1/2 INCH, 42.2 % PASS NO. 4 , 34.3 PASS NO. 10 , 21.6 PASS NO. 40 , 5.4 PASS NO. 200
Result LIQUID LIMIT 17.5
Result PLASTICITY LIMIT NP, SWELL .010
Result ABRASION AFTER 500 REVOLUTIONS 29.3

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.45514, 38.68054
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Thickness 3.66M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Castle Valley Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, GRAND COUNTY, 1965

  • Deposit

    1965 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT HIGHWAYS

  • Reserve-Resource

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT RECOGNIZED THIS AREA IN 1965 AS ONE WITH POTENTIAL AND EXCAVATION TO DATE HASN'T BEEN STARTED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1977 Perry, Lee I. Bureau of Land Management

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