Utah Dept. Highways Pit #21010

Past Producer in Sevier 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097977
MRDS ID DB00947
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit #21010

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.16856, 38.66108 (WGS84)
Elevation 1631
Relative position 2 MILES SW OF ELSINORE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sevier(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Elsinore(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Sevier

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 025S 003W 06 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUBDIVISION: NE 1/4 NW 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC. 06

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gravel Ore
Sand Ore

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 100 % ON 1 IN., 54.5 % ON NO. 4
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 21.2
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: N.P.
Result SWELL: .020
Result A.A.S.H.O. CLASS: A-1-A
Result ABR 500 REV: 28.6

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.16856, 38.66108

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description River Cut Terrace

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 218.72M
    Width 182.88M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 3.66M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • River Channel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Hansen And Sylvester

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.627HA
    Overall length 100M
    Overall width 68.58M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, 1966 , MATERIALS INVENTORY: SANPETE AND SEVIER COUNTIES

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1978 Dollar, Robert S. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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