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Badger Island Gravel Pit #3

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087521
MRDS ID D007688
Record type Site
Current site name Badger Island Gravel Pit #3

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.53443, 40.88604 (WGS84)
Elevation 1332
Relative position 4.5 MILES SSE OF BADGER ISLAND

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Badger Island(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002N 006W 20 NE OF SE OF SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PARTS OF ABOVE SECTIONS, ALSO SEC. 31, T3N., R11W.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • INTERBEDS OF SAND AND SILT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Sand Ore
Quartz 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
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.53443, 40.88604
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 3.05M
    Width 91.44M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Terrace

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Stansbury Island

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION FIGURES AVAILABLE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO RESOURCE FIGURES AVAILABLE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.217HA
    Overall length 65M
    Overall width 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • AVERAGE DEPTH 2 YDS, NUMEROUS DOZER CUTS ALSO PRESENT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STEGEN, R.J., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURV

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURV.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POOR TO WELL SORTED, SUBANGULAR TO SUBROUND CLASTS
Deposit COMMODITY IS ROUNDED TO WELL ROUNDED, PREDOMINATELY EQUANT IN SHAPE, SAME TABULAR IS ALSO PRESENT.

Reporter information

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

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