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Farmington-Centerville Freeway Gravel Pit

Past Producer in Davis 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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088712
MRDS ID M058237
Record type Site
Current site name Farmington-Centerville Freeway Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.87913, 40.95188 (WGS84)
Elevation 1353
Relative position 8200 FT NORTH 01 DEGREE WEST FROM BM 4287 IN SECTION 07

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Davis(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Farmington(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Weber(hydrologic unit)

Weber(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Davis

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 003N 001E 31 SW OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1977)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite 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
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.87913, 40.95188
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 8.23M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Bonneville Shoreline

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Farmington

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • VOLUME INCLUDES BOTH PITS.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.594HA
    Overall length 134M
    Overall width 48.46M

Comments on the workings information

  • PIT NUMBER 2 MEASURES 150 FT BY 75 FT, BELOW PIT NUMBER ONE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, 1957, MATERIALS INVENTORY, DAVIS COUNTY

  • Deposit

    SOMMER, S. N., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Production

    SOMMER, S.N., 1981

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CLASTS SUBANGULAR; POORLY SORTED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Sommer, Steven N. (Tripp, Bryce T.) Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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

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