Yellow Jacket Mine

Occurrence in Iron county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094357
MRDS ID D005346
Record type Site
Current site name Yellow Jacket Mine
Related records 10275835

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.3508, 37.64775 (WGS84)
Elevation 1914
Relative position 2,000 FT SSE OF HOMESTAKE MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Desert Mound(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante Desert(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 Iron

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 036S 013W 19 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: NE 1/4, NW 1/4, NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE HIGH IN SILICA AND SULFUR

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result IRON 49%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Iron Mtn. Pluton
    Rock description Iron Mtn. Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Homestake Limestone Member Of Carmel Formation
    Rock description Homestake Limestone Member Of Carmel Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.3508, 37.64775

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sevier Thrust System
Type of structure Local
Structure description Iron Mtn. Intrusion

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 25 DEG W
    Dip 70 DEG E
    Length 426.72M
    Width 15.24M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracturing, Faulting, Favorable Limestone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1945
Discoverer U.S. Bureau Of Mines

Mining district

District name Pinto Iron

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Utah International, Inc.
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Steel Corp.
    Home office Jefferson City, Tn.

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS, 65 ACRES IN EXTENT FOR PRESUMED ORE BODY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit REPLACEMENT OF THE LIMESTONE WAS NOT COMPLETE AS SHOWN BY THE PRESENCE OF CHLORIDE, EPIDOTE AND OTHER SILICATES IN THE ORE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Stegan, Ralph J. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.