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Utah Dept. Hyws. Gravel Pit #23163

Past Producer in Tooele 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. 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. 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 10101687
MRDS ID D007312
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Hyws. Gravel Pit #23163

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.13888, 40.00605 (WGS84)
Elevation 1352
Relative position 1 MILE SE OF BULLION CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dugway Proving Ground SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern 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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009S;009S 011W;012W 36,31 SE OF SE OF SW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.13888, 40.00605
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET/WEDGE
    Thickness 4.57M
    Depth to top 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Fan

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Dugway District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

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

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES NOT KNOWN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1.881HA
    Overall length 150M
    Overall width 137.16M

Comments on the workings information

  • 15 FT. THICK DEPOSIT RESULTS IN APPROX. 300,000 CU. YDS. OF SAND AND GRAVEL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HWYS., 19668 MATERIALS INVENTORY, TOOELE CO

  • Production

    MOHAMMAD, H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT. GEOL & MIN. SUR.

  • Reserve-Resource

    MOHAMMAD, H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT. GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL TO MEDIUM COBBLES; SORTING POOR.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1981 Mohammad, Hasan Bureau of Land Management

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