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Yellow Hammer

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Beryllium, Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver, Tungsten
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Production statistics
  16. Reserves and resources
  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 10155384
MRDS ID DC15196
MAS/MILS ID 0490450002
Record type Site
Current site name Yellow Hammer
Related records 10098085

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -113.82554, 40.11433 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008 S 018 W 24 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Beryllium Critical Tertiary
Copper Primary
Gold Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Actinolite Unknown
Apatite Unknown
Chalcopyrite Unknown
Garnet Unknown
Gold Unknown
Malachite Unknown
Manganite Unknown
Molybdenite Unknown
Powellite Unknown
Scheelite Unknown
Silver Unknown
Tourmaline Unknown

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N65E
    Dip 75S
    Thickness 6M
    Length 100M
    Width 50M
    Depth to top 8M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 REPLACEMENT
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 SHEAR ZONE
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Secondary mode of Origin CONT METASOMATIC
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Secondary Ore Control IGNEOUS
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. INTENSE
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 SERICITIC
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #2 OTHER
    Strike And Dip N65E:75S
    Minimum Depth to Top 6
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 2
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 820922
  • Area 20HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 20
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1916
Mining method Shrinkage Methods
Year of first production 1946
Milling method Flotation

Mining district

District name Gold Hill District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim
Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Mixed

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner American Consolidated Mining Co.
    ID 4201263
    Interest 100
    Home office Utah
    Year 1982

Production statistics

  • Year 1955
    Description Wo3 Containing Ore 400 Metric Tons Of Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major WO3 Tungsten Tungsten 400mt

Comments on the production information

  • BLANK CONCENTRATE GRADES IN THE YIELD DATA SETS INDICATE TRACES (VERY LOW GRADES).
  • ACTUALLY, THE 400 METRIC TONS OF ORE WERE PRODUCED IN 1954 AND 1955.
  • ALTHOUGH MO, BE, AU, AND AG COULD BE RECOVERABLE, NO SMELTER CREDIT CAN BE EXPECTED FROM KENNAMETAL CORP. SMELTER (SMELTING COMPANY COMMENT).

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1985
    Demonstrated 180000mt ore
    Total resources 180000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 5 wt-pct Copper Major 1985
    Tungsten Wo3 2.5 wt-pct Tungsten Major 1985
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1969
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Silver Ag 30 g/mt Silver Trace 1969
    Copper Cu 3.8 wt-pct Copper Major 1969
    Gold Au 3 g/mt Gold Trace 1969
    Tungsten Wo3 2 wt-pct Tungsten Major 1969

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THE INDIVIDUAL MINERALS CONTAINING THE ELEMENTS W, CU, AU, AND AG IN RESERVE RECORD 1, ARE NOT REPORTED. THESE MINERALS ARE IN MOST PROBABILITY, SCHEELITE, CHALCOPYRITE, NATIVE GOLD, AND NATIVE SILVER.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 3M
    Overall depth 70M
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method PROPOSED
    Mining Method OVERHAND SHRINKAGE 10-67
    Swell Factor .43
    Percent Waste Rock 0
    Percent Recovery 90
    Hardness of Rock HARDROCK WITH LITTLE WATER
    Rock Characteristics ONE SYSTEM OF WEAKNESS PLANES
    Rock Support Chars. UNSUPPORTING NO FLOW
    Mine Support Chars. CAN'T SUPPORT FILL OR CAVE
    Number of Shafts 1
    Avg. Length of Adits (m) 100
    Number of Adits 1
    1st Condition of Workings PART ACCESSIBLE
    Capacity 100
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Unit Production Cost 31.28
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Operating Days per Year 250
    Operating Shifts per Day 1
    Year of Information 1982

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    SKILLING'S MINING REVIEW. AMERICAN CONS. REPORTS ON GOLD

  • Reserve-Resource

    HILL GEOLOGICAL RESULTS, DULUTH, MINNESOTA, JAN 16,

  • Reserve-Resource

    1982, P. 7.

  • Reserve-Resource

    YELLOW HAMMER PROPERTY. DENVER, COLORADO, MAY 14,

  • Reserve-Resource

    1969, P. 3.

  • Reserve-Resource

    MINING RECORD, SEP 11, 1985.

  • Deposit

    UGMS ECON. FILES 1979, CRIB 1, ATCHINSON CREEK 2.

  • Deposit

    THURSTON, W.R., M.H. STAATZ, D.C. COX & OTHERS, FLUORSPAR

  • Deposit

    SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 177, 1935, 122 PP.

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B..S., G.F. LOUGHLIN, V.C. HEIKES, AND OTHERS. THE

  • Deposit

    ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL

  • Deposit

    PAPER 111, 1920, PP. 476-484.

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F. D. TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF UTAH. BUMINES IC 8014,

  • Deposit

    1961, P. 28.

  • Deposit

    THE MINING RECORD. SILVER STAR-QUEENS DISCOVERS ORE AT

  • Deposit

    YELLOW HAMMER PROPERTY. DENVER, COLORADO, MAY 14, 1969,

  • Deposit

    P. 3.

  • Deposit

    SALT LAKE CITY TRIBUNE. S.L. FIRM BUYS MINERAL CLAIMS.

  • Deposit

    PRESS CLIPPING, OCT. 1981. AVAILABLE FROM L. BURGIN,

  • Deposit

    BUMINES IFOC STAFF GEOLOGIST.

  • Deposit

    DESERET NEWS. NEW MINING FIRM GOES FOR HIGH STAKES AT

  • Deposit

    GOLD HILL. PRESS CLIPPING, OCT. 9-10, 1981. AVAILABLE

  • Deposit

    FROM L. BURGIN, BUMINES IFOC STAFF GEOLOGIST.

  • Deposit

    EL SHATOURY, H.M. AND J.A. WHELAN. MINERALIZTION IN

  • Deposit

    THE GOLD HILL MINNG DISTRICT, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH.

  • Deposit

    UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY, BULL. 83, MARCH

  • Deposit

    1970, PP. 33-34.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE LOCATION AND DIMENSIONS OF THE RELAIVELY SMALL ORE BODY, WHOSE DEVELOPMENT IS PROPOSED IN THIS EVALUATION COME FROM AMERICAN CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. PERSONNEL. TWO COMPANY REPORTS (SEE Q-MATRIX 1, REMARKS) AND PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH AMERICAN CONSOLIDATED, (1982) HAVE SERVED AS THE CHIEF BACKUP DATA FOR THIS STUDY. "OTHER" IN TYPE OF WALL ROCK ALTERATION MEANS CHLORITIZATION. THE MINERALIZATION DIMENSIONS GIVEN ARE NOT THE WHOLE DEPOSIT DIMENSIONS (WHICH ARE NOT WELL KNOWN), BUT THE DIMENSIONS OF THE ORE BODY PROPOSED FOR DEVELOPMENT ONLY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-OCT-96 Amaro, R. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusAbandoned since 03/21/1988
MSHA mine ID4201263
Mine name (MSHA)Yellow Hammer Mine
Current operatorAmerican Consolidated Mining Company
Current controller (parent)Moeller William D
Mine typeSurface (Metal / non-metal)

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