Yellow Bird

Past Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodity Tungsten
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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087000
MRDS ID D004370
Record type Site
Current site name Yellow Bird
Alternate or previous names Rainbow
Related records 10179628

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.3761, 39.18967 (WGS84)
Elevation 2469
Relative position AMASA VALLEY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Notch Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tule Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sevier Lake(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier 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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 019S 014W 01 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS 1/4 1/4 1/4 NOT SURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Idocrase Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Skarn

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Painter Springs Intrusion
    Rock description Painter Springs Intrusion
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Big Hourse Canyon Ls Member Of The Orr Formation;Weeks Formation;Marjum Formation
    Rock description Big Hourse Canyon Ls Mbr. Of The Orr Formation;Weeks Formation;Marjum Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.3761, 39.18967

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description The Area Is A Limestone Roof Pendant Domed Up By The Intrusive. It Is Also A Titled (Se) Fault Block

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N35E
    Dip 12SE
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 167.64M
    Width 15.24M
    Depth to top 3.05M
    Depth to bottom 9.14M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Proximity To Contact Zone Of The Intrusive With The Limestone, And A Northwest Trending Fracture Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • TUNGSTEN OCCURS AS FINE DISSEMINATED SCHEELITE POWDER.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1955

Mining district

District name House Range

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Notch Peak Minerals
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management

Comments on the production information

  • FIGURE #1 IS FOR RAINBOW MINE, FIGURE #2 IS FOR YELLOWBIRD

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 38.1M
    Overall width 12.19M

Comments on the workings information

  • RAINBOW PIT IS 50 FT X 25 FT X 20 FT DEEP, THE YELLOWBIRD PIT IS 75 FT X 15 FT X 8 FT DEEP

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY: ON SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Deposit

    HINTZE, L.F., 1974, PRELIM. GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE NOTCH PEAK QUADRANGLE MILLARD COUNTY, UTAH: USGS MF-636

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F.D., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR #8014

  • Deposit

    1876 RECON GILBERT, G.K., 100TH MERIDIAN RPT. V.3

  • Deposit

    1908 RECON WALCOTT, C.D., SMITHSONIAN MIS COLL. V.53

  • Deposit

    1951 RECON WHEELER, H.E., UGMS GUIDEBOOK #6

  • Production

    EVERETT, F.D., 1961.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CLAIMS ARE UP TO DATE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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