Mine detail: Redmond Cemetery Gravel Pit

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Location: Sevier County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.01524, -111.87216
dep_id: 10088835
mrds_id: M058938
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Sand and Gravel, Construction
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Unconsolidated Sediments
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Quartzite
orebody_fm: BLANKET
work_type: Surface
conc_proc: Slope Wash
ore_ctrl: Slope Wash
Reporter: Tripp, Bryce T.
hrock_unit: Slope Wash
hrock_type: Quartzite
Structure: Wasatch Fault, Redmond Hills Anticline, Gunnison Plateau, Syncline, Sanpete-Sevier Valley Anticline
tectonic: Wasatch Hingeline
References:
  • Deposit:: WITKING, I.J., 1981, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE REDMOND QUADRANGLE, SANPETE AND SEVIER COUNTIES, UTAH: USGS MAP I-1304-A.
  • Deposit:: PRATT, A.R., AND CALLAHAN, E., 1970, LAND AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SANPETE CO., UTAH: UGMS BULL. 85, 69 P.
  • Deposit:: TRIPP, B., 1985, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS.
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