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Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 19008

Prospect in San Juan 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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  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 10088030
MRDS ID DB00198
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 19008

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.22569, 38.34055 (WGS84)
Elevation 2371
Relative position 3.8 MILES WEST OF LA SAL GUARD STATION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

La Sal East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

La Sal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Dolores(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Manti-La Sal National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 024E 25 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SW 1/4 , NE 1/4 , SEC. 25

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Tertiary

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS, BEFORE CRUSHING, GREATER THAN 3 IN. - 16 %, 1 IN - 42 %, PERCENT PASSING AFTER CRUSHING, 1 IN - 100 %, NO. 4 - 46 %, NO. 10 - 39 %, NO. 40 - 26 %, NO. 200 - 11 %, LIQUID LIMIT 20 %, SWELL - .006 , PLASTICITY INDEX - N.P. A.A.S.H.O. CLASSIFICATION A-1-A

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Alluvial Fan Sediments
    Rock description Alluvial Fan Sediments
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 609.6M
    Width 152.4M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 4.57M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name La Sal

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Forest Service

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.005HA
    Overall length 9.14M
    Overall width 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A PROSPECT PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

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

  • Deposit

    1965 COMPILE UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS MATERIALS INVENTOR

  • Reserve-Resource

    LEE I. PERRY, 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1977 Perry, Lee I. Bureau of Land Management

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