Scipio Pass Gravel Pit No. 4

Past Producer in Millard 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. Ownership information
  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 10087071
MRDS ID D004582
Record type Site
Current site name Scipio Pass Gravel Pit No. 4

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.16689, 39.20024 (WGS84)
Elevation 1865
Relative position 3.57 MILES NORTH OF LOWER EBBS SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Scipio Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 018S 003W 34 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC 34, SE 1/4, SE 1/4, SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • POOR GRAVEL - EXTENSIVE INTERBEDS OF SAND, SILT & CLAY

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Clay Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.16689, 39.20024

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Fan

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.502HA
    Overall length 80M
    Overall width 68.58M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVG. DEPTH 2 YDS - ADJACENT BULLDOZER SCRAP 50 YDS LONG; ADJACENT PIT NORTH AT 60 YD X 20 YD X 1 YD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS & RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY SECTION: MILLARD COUNTY, 1966

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979, GEOLOGIST

  • Reserve-Resource

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979 GEOLOGIST

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUBANGULAR TO ROUNDED-EQUANT TO TABULAR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Stegan, Ralph J. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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