Craner Peak Gravel

Past Producer 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. 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 10087527
MRDS ID D007703
Record type Site
Current site name Craner Peak Gravel

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.7811, 40.90215 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position ON EAST AND WEST SIDES OF LAKESIDE MTNS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Craner Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(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 009W 12 NW OF SW SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS REPRESENTATIVE POINT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Dolomite Ore
Limestone Ore

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

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET/WEDGE
    Length 8851.15M
    Width 2011.63M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Flanks Of Mountains

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Lakeside

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Amax Inc.

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES UNKNOWN.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 396.24M
    Overall width 91.44M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1964, GEOL. OF THE N. END OF THE LAKESIDE MTNS. AND GRASSY MTNS. AND VICINITY: UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. THESIS.

  • Deposit

    TRIPP, B.T., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. THESI

  • Production

    TRIPP, B.T., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H.H., 1964, GEOL. OF THE N. END OF THE LAKESIDE MTNS. AND GRASSY MTNS AND VICINITY: UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. THESIS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FAIR TO WELL SORTED SUBANGULAR TO ROUNDED CLASTS TO BOULDER SIZES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1980 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.