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Borden Gravel Pits #1

Past Producer in Millard 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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087270
MRDS ID D005954
Record type Site
Current site name Borden Gravel Pits #1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.7958, 38.98857 (WGS84)
Elevation 1439
Relative position 1.33 MILES NNE OF BORDEN BASIN RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Borden(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Beaver(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 021S 008W 18 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4, NE 1/4, SW 1/4, SEC 18

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FAIR GRAVEL-INTERBEDDED SAND, SILT AND CLAY.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.7958, 38.98857
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.22M
    Depth to top 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Plain

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
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 1.761HA
    Overall length 280M
    Overall width 54.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • AU DEPTH 1 YD; SECOND PIT AT 135 X 55 X 1 YDS; THIRD PIT AT 60 X 35 X 1 YD. (20%). NUMEROUS BULLDOZER CUTS AROUND PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS AND RESEARCH DIVISION, MATERIALS INVENTORY SECTION: MILLARD COUNTY

  • Production

    STEGEN, R J, 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT GEOL AND MIN SURV

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUB-ROUNDED TO WELL-ROUNDED PEBBLES OF MOSTLY EQUANT AND TABULAR SHAPE; DEPOSIT CONTAINS MUCH INTERBEDDEN SAND, SILT, AND CLAY.

Reporter information

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

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