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Utah Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 23048

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087658
MRDS ID D008493
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 23048
Related records 10179721

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.73388, 40.55354 (WGS84)
Elevation 1353
Relative position 4500 FEET NORTHWEST OF FLUX

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salt Mountain(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 001S 006W NW OF SE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MATERIAL IS OF CARBONATE COMPOSISITION (L.S. & DOLO) POORLY SORTED; SOME CALCAREOUS CEMENTATION PRESENT.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand and Gravel Ore

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS IN PERCENT
Result AFTER CRUSHING TO 1 IN. MAX.: 1IN=100, 1/2IN=72, NO.4=44, NO.8=35, NO.50=21, NO.200=12.4 LIQUID LIM.=73.6 SWELL=.011

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) -112.73388, 40.55354
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range-Stansbury Mtns.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Pediment

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 656.16M
    Width 274.32M
    Depth to top 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Small Pediment And Valley Fill

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Free Coinage

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Staley Anderson

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 90M
    Overall width 32M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS ARE FLOORED BY SILT. AVERAGE DEPTH 3 YDS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH STATE DEPT HWYS, 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY, TOOELE CO.

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT HWYS, 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY, TOOELE CO

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UTAH STATE DEPT HWY

  • Production

    KRUPICKA, D.C., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ANGULAR TO SUB-ROUNDED PEBBLES, COBBLES, AND A FEW BOULDERS. ABUNDANT SILT INTERBEDDING. BEDS HAVE SLIGHT DIP

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1980 Krupicka, Daniel C. Bureau of Land Management

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