Utah's mineral occurrence records (the USGS / Utah Geological and Mineral Survey records compiled by UGRC) list six occurrences within about 6 km of Section 28: all are sand-and-gravel pits in pediment gravels (Utah Department of Highways pits 04024, 04025 and 04026 northeast of the Wellington rodeo ground, the Wellington NE and NW gravel pits, and the Soldier Creek upper gravel pits), described as road metal, riprap and aggregate. The CRIB mineral-location layer adds one carbon dioxide occurrence. Federal law says no deposit of common varieties of sand, stone or gravel is a valuable mineral deposit under the mining laws unless it has a distinct and special value (30 U.S.C. 611), and carbon dioxide is obtained by lease, not by claim. No vein or lode deposit of a locatable mineral is on record there in these databases. A lode claim requires a vein or lode discovered within it (Utah Code 40-1-1; dir-004). Absence from these databases does not prove no mineral exists.

• Utah mineral occurrence records (UGRC 'Minerals'; USGS/UGMS records) within about 6 km of Section 28 (Utah Geospatial Resource Center (USGS / Utah Geological and Mineral Survey records)) primary government
• Utah mineral locations (CRIB) within about 6 km of Section 28 (Utah Geospatial Resource Center) primary government
• 30 U.S.C. 611 (common varieties not valuable mineral deposits) (Legal Information Institute (Cornell), text of the U.S. Code) primary government “No deposit of common varieties of sand, stone, gravel”