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Borrow Pit

Past Producer in Tooele 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. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087501
MRDS ID D007573
Record type Site
Current site name Borrow Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.40858, 40.21133 (WGS84)
Elevation 1582
Relative position 6200 FT WNW OF BM 5184

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Faust(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

National Forest(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 007S 005W 16 SW OF SE OF NW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • DOLOMITE 99%, QUARTZ 1%, ANGULAR TO SUBANGULAR, MODERATE TO POOR SORTING.

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) Alluvium and colluvium
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range-Rush Valley

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR/WEDGE
    Thickness 4.57M
    Depth to top 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Beach

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Ophir District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Utah State

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES NOT KNOWN

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SUBSURFACE BRINES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.252HA
    Overall length 58.52M
    Overall width 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TAFF, D.E., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SUR.

  • Deposit

    UT. DEPT. OF HWYS, 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY: TOOELE CO.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UNDERLIES MAJOR PORTION OF QUADRANGLE, SEVERAL HORIZONS OF BRINE OF TO BE EXPECTED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Taff, David E. Bureau of Land Management

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

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