Utah Dept. Highways Pit No. 20001

Past Producer in Sanpete 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097996
MRDS ID DB01341
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit No. 20001

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.49216, 39.75634 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Relative position 3.1 MILES SOUTH OF INDIANOLA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Indianola(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nephi(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spanish Fork(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 012S 004E 20 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 SW 1/4 SW 1/4 SEC. 20

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 100 % ON 1 IN., 74.5 % ON 1/2 IN., 20.3 % ON NO. 8 , 3.4 % ON NO. 200
Result SWELL: 0.001
Result AASHO CLASS: A-1-A
Result ABR. 500 REV.: 35.0

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.49216, 39.75634

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Normal Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 546.8M
    Width 54.86M
    Depth to top 0.46M
    Depth to bottom 3.51M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • River Terraces

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Howard Nielsen

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.146HA
    Overall length 50M
    Overall width 32M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS MATERIALS INVENTORY, 1966

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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