Utah Highway Dept. Gravel Pit #14096

Past Producer in Millard 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. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  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 10101530
MRDS ID D004554
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Highway Dept. Gravel Pit #14096

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.31554, 39.03912 (WGS84)
Elevation 1564
Relative position 0.8 MILE NE OF SKULL ROCK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Skull Rock Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tule Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sevier Lake(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier 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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 020S 013W 28 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4, NE 1/4, SE 1/4, SECTION 28

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • VERY CLEAN GRAVEL.

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: BEFORE CRUSHING: 3": 3.0
Result 1": 19.1
Result AFTER: 1": 100
Result NO. 4: 39.1
Result NO. 10: 25.6
Result NO. 40: 12.4
Result NO. 200: 5.2
Result L.L.: 24.3
Result P.I.: 4.4
Result SWELL: .031
Result 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 Lake Bonneville Formation
    Rock description Lake Bonneville Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.31554, 39.03912

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.22M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Beach

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name U.S. Highway 50 & 6

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.433HA
    Overall length 185M
    Overall width 32M

Comments on the workings information

  • AV. DEPTH 2 FEET.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH HIGHWAY DEPT. 1966 MATERIALS SURVEY OF MILLARD COUNTY

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS & RESEARCH DIVISION; MATERIALS INVENTORY SECTION: MILLARD COUNT

  • Deposit

    1966 DIREXPL UTAH HIGHWAY DEPT

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUB-ANGULAR TO ROUNDED, PREDOMINANTLY PEBBLES WITH SOME COBBLES, OCCASIONAL BOULDER.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Stegan, Ralph J. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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