Yellow Canary uranium deposits, Daggett County, Utah
Circular
312
By: Verl Richard Wilmarth
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Abstract
The Yellow Canary uranium deposit is on the west side of Red Creek Canyon in the northern part of the Uinta Mountains, Daggett County, Utah. Two claims have been developed by means of an adit, three opencuts, and several hundred feet of bulldozer trenches. No uranium ore has been produced from this deposit.
The deposit is in the pre-Cambrian Red Creek quartzite. This formation is composed of intercalated beds of quartzite, hornblendite, garnet schist, staurolite schist, and quartz-mica schist and is intruded by dioritic dikes. A thick unit of highly fractured white quartzite near the top of the formation contains tyuyamunite as coatings on fracture surfaces. The tyuyamunite is associated with carnotite, volborthite, iron oxides, azurite, malachite, brochantite, and hyalite. The uranium and vanadium minerals are probably alteration products of primary minerals.
The uranium content of 15 samples from this property ranged from 0.000 to 0.57 percent.
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Yellow Canary uranium deposits, Daggett County, Utah |
| Series title | Circular |
| Series number | 312 |
| DOI | 10.3133/cir312 |
| Edition | - |
| Year Published | 1953 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Publisher | [U.S. Geological Survey], |
| Description | 8 p. :maps, tables. ;27 cm. |
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