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Yellow Jacket Prospect

Past Producer in Sevier county in Utah, United States with commodities Aluminum, Gypsum-Anhydrite
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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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Reserves and resources
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041852
MRDS ID M057695
Record type Site
Current site name Yellow Jacket Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.20911, 38.53497 (WGS84)
Elevation 2057
Relative position 0.4 MILES EAST OF BM 7514

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sevier(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Antelope Range(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Sevier

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 026S 004W 14 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY CONSIST OF EIGHT PATENTED CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Primary
Gypsum-Anhydrite Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alunite Ore
Clay Gangue
Gypsum Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic Alteration

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLE AVERAGED 64 % ALUNITE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description The Area Is Cut By A Series Of Normal Faults Trending N 60 W, Dip 80 Sw - 60 Ne.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Henry District

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1973
    Total resources 1904000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Aluminum Alunite 23 wt-pct Aluminum Major 1973

Comments on the workings information

  • EXPLORATION BY THE USBM CONSIST OF 3 DRILL HOLES TOTALLING 739 FT., 40 TEST PITS, 2373 FT. OF TRENCHES, AND 1183 FT. OF BULLDOZER CUTS. MINE WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO SMALL QUARRY FACES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1973 , MIN. RES. POTENTIAL OF PIUTE CO.: UGMS BULL. 102 , P. 101 - 103 .

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1938 , PRELIM. REPT. ON THE ALUNITE DEPOSITS OF THE MARYSVALE REGION: USGS BULL. 886-D, P. 129 .

  • Deposit

    HILD, J. H., 1946 , EXPL. OF ALUNITE DEPOSITS: USBM REPT INV. 3972 , P. 11 - 12 , 41 - 51 .

  • Deposit

    KERR, P. F. AND OTHERS, 1957 , MARYSVALE URANIUM AREA: GSA SPEC. PAPER 64 , P. 180 .

  • Deposit

    5) CALLAGHAN, E., AND PARKER, R., 1961 , GEOLOGY OF THE MONROE QUAD.: USGS MAP GQ-155 .

  • Reserve-Resource

    CALLAGHAN, 1973

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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