Quincy Spring Gravel

Occurrence in Tooele 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. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087460
MRDS ID D007417
Record type Site
Current site name Quincy Spring Gravel

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.90221, 40.54687 (WGS84)
Elevation 1500
Relative position 1 3/8 MILES SSW OF EIGHTMILE SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Quincy Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Skull Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 003S 009W 19 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Sandstone Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chert Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.90221, 40.54687

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR-WEDGE
    Length 13679.05M
    Width 4023.25M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Flank Of Mountain Range

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Cedar Mtns

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MAURER, R.E., 1970, GEOLOGY OF THE CEDAR MOUNTAINS, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: PH.D. THESIS, UNIV. OF UTAH

  • Deposit

    1970 GEOLMAP UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D DISSERTATIO

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY.

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATATION, UGMS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LAKE TERRACES, BARS AND SPITS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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