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Hogup Railroad Gravel

Past Producer in Box Elder 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. 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 10088370
MRDS ID DB01916
Record type Site
Current site name Hogup Railroad Gravel
Related records 10130212

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.12612, 41.27353 (WGS84)
Elevation 1303
Relative position ONE MILE NORTH OF RAILROAD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Meadow Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newfoundland Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(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)

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 Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006N 011W 05 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS REPRESENTATIVE OF MORE EXTENSIVE GRAVEL DEPOSIT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chert Ore
Limestone Ore
Clay 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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.12612, 41.27353
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 6.1M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Bar

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Hogup Mtns

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Southern Pacific Railroad

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 40.47HA
    Overall length 6437.2M
    Overall width 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • MOSTLY LS. PEBBLES, CHERT ETC. BONNEVILLE RAILROAD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STIFEL, P. B., 1964 , GEOLOGY OF THE TERRACE AND HOGUP MOUNTAINS, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UNIV. OF UTAH, PH. D. DISSERTATION

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP STIFEL, UNIV OF UTAH PH. D. THESI

  • Production

    DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION.

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOSTLY SUBANGULAR TO SUBROUND CLASTS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

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