Utah Highway Dept. Pit No. 23052

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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087546
MRDS ID D007757
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Highway Dept. Pit No. 23052

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.51998, 40.76521 (WGS84)
Elevation 1283
Relative position 6.6 MILES SOUTH OF STANSBURY PEAK IN 34, T2N, R6W

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Corral Canyon(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 001S 006W 03 SW OF NE OF NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Sand Ore
Clay Gangue

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 1"=100
Result #4=100
Result #8=95
Result #50=52
Result #200=15.0
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 19.0
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: NP
Result SWELL: 0
Result AASHO CLASSIFICATION: A-2-4

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.51998, 40.76521

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 137.16M
    Width 60.96M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Solar Salt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 2.676HA
    Overall length 200M
    Overall width 91.44M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY OF TOOELE COUNTY, 1967

  • Deposit

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    UT. DEPT OF HWYS, 1967, MATERIALS INVENTORY, TOOELE CO.

  • Deposit

    1965 DIREXPL UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAY

  • Production

    UT. DEPT. OF HWYS, 1967, MATERIALS INVENTORY, TOOELE CO.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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