Yellow Hammer

The Yellow Hammer is a tungsten and copper mine located in Tooele county, Utah at an elevation of 6,201 feet.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Yellow Hammer

State: Utah

County: Tooele

Elevation: 6,201 Feet (1,890 Meters)

Commodity: Tungsten, Copper

Lat, Long: 40.1144, -113.82470

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Yellow Hammer MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Yellow Hammer

Commodity

Primary: Tungsten
Primary: Copper
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Tertiary: Gold
Tertiary: Beryllium

Location

State: Utah
County: Tooele
District: Gold Hill District

Land Status

Land ownership: Mixed
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.

Holdings

Type: Patented
Type: Located Claim

Workings

Type: Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: American Consolidated Mining Co.
Company ID: 4201263
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Utah
Info Year: 1982

Production

Year: 1955
Description: Wo3 Containing Ore 400 Metric Tons Of Ore

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Shrinkage Methods
Milling Method: Flotation
Year First Production: 1946
Discovery Year: 1916
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Unknown: Molybdenite
Unknown: Apatite
Unknown: Chalcopyrite
Unknown: Garnet
Unknown: Powellite
Unknown: Scheelite
Unknown: Silver
Unknown: Tourmaline
Unknown: Gold
Unknown: Malachite
Unknown: Manganite
Unknown: Actinolite

Comments

Comment (Production): ALTHOUGH MO, BE, AU, AND AG COULD BE RECOVERABLE, NO SMELTER CREDIT CAN BE EXPECTED FROM KENNAMETAL CORP. SMELTER (SMELTING COMPANY COMMENT).

Comment (Production): BLANK CONCENTRATE GRADES IN THE YIELD DATA SETS INDICATE TRACES (VERY LOW GRADES).

Comment (Reserve-Resource): 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.

Comment (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.

Comment (Production): ACTUALLY, THE 400 METRIC TONS OF ORE WERE PRODUCED IN 1954 AND 1955.

References

Reference (Deposit): 1970, PP. 33-34.

Reference (Deposit): UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY, BULL. 83, MARCH

Reference (Deposit): THE GOLD HILL MINNG DISTRICT, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH.

Reference (Deposit): SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 177, 1935, 122 PP.

Reference (Deposit): THURSTON, W.R., M.H. STAATZ, D.C. COX & OTHERS, FLUORSPAR

Reference (Deposit): UGMS ECON. FILES 1979, CRIB 1, ATCHINSON CREEK 2.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): MINING RECORD, SEP 11, 1985.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): 1969, P. 3.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): 1982, P. 7.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): YELLOW HAMMER PROPERTY. DENVER, COLORADO, MAY 14,

Reference (Reserve-Resource): HILL GEOLOGICAL RESULTS, DULUTH, MINNESOTA, JAN 16,

Reference (Deposit): ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL

Reference (Deposit): BUTLER, B..S., G.F. LOUGHLIN, V.C. HEIKES, AND OTHERS. THE

Reference (Reserve-Resource): SKILLING'S MINING REVIEW. AMERICAN CONS. REPORTS ON GOLD

Reference (Deposit): EL SHATOURY, H.M. AND J.A. WHELAN. MINERALIZTION IN

Reference (Deposit): EVERETT, F. D. TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF UTAH. BUMINES IC 8014,

Reference (Deposit): PAPER 111, 1920, PP. 476-484.

Reference (Deposit): FROM L. BURGIN, BUMINES IFOC STAFF GEOLOGIST.

Reference (Deposit): GOLD HILL. PRESS CLIPPING, OCT. 9-10, 1981. AVAILABLE

Reference (Deposit): DESERET NEWS. NEW MINING FIRM GOES FOR HIGH STAKES AT

Reference (Deposit): BUMINES IFOC STAFF GEOLOGIST.

Reference (Deposit): PRESS CLIPPING, OCT. 1981. AVAILABLE FROM L. BURGIN,

Reference (Deposit): P. 3.

Reference (Deposit): SALT LAKE CITY TRIBUNE. S.L. FIRM BUYS MINERAL CLAIMS.

Reference (Deposit): YELLOW HAMMER PROPERTY. DENVER, COLORADO, MAY 14, 1969,

Reference (Deposit): 1961, P. 28.

Reference (Deposit): THE MINING RECORD. SILVER STAR-QUEENS DISCOVERS ORE AT

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