Center Creek Gravel Pit

Past Producer in Wasatch 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103854
MRDS ID M058163
Record type Site
Current site name Center Creek Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.32438, 40.45439 (WGS84)
Elevation 1932
Relative position 11,000 FEET SOUTH 32 EAST OF CENTER CREEK CEMETERY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wasatch(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Center Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Provo(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

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

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Provo(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Wasatch

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 004S 005E 24 NW OF NE OF SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1977)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartzite Ore
Sandstone Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Gravity, Weathering And Fluvial

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Rock unit name Slope Wash, Alluvium
    Rock description Slope Wash, Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.32438, 40.45439

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 9.14M
    Depth to top 0.91M
  • General form BLANKET

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Hillside

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRAVEL WEATHERED FROM PENNSYLVANIAN OQUIRRH FM.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Center Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Wasatch County

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.304HA
    Overall length 150M
    Overall width 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • 30 FT. HIGH WALL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, HELLMUT H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY

  • Deposit

    UTAH STATE DEPT. OF HWYS., 1966, MATERIALS INVENTORY, WASATCH CO.

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, HELLMUT, H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUBANGULAR TO ANGULAR CLASTICS, FAIRLY SORTED, FINES TO 6 IN COBBLES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1981 Doelling, Hellmut H. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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