Yellow Canary Uranium Deposit

The Yellow Canary uranium deposit sits on the west side of Red Creek Canyon in the northern Uinta Mountains, Daggett County, Utah, near Dutch John — inside the Ashley National Forest. It's a documented but never-productive prospect: the USGS published a full circular on it (Circular 312) and a separate technical report (TEI-124), and two claims were developed with an adit, three opencuts, and several hundred feet of bulldozer trenches, but no uranium ore was ever produced. The host rock is Precambrian Red Creek quartzite, intercalated with hornblendite, garnet schist, staurolite schist, and quartz-mica schist, cut by dioritic dikes. We could not confirm the copper-mineral list our database attaches to this site (azurite, bornite, chalcopyrite, malachite, and similar) against any source — that part is unverified and should be treated with caution until someone can pull the full USGS report.

Near Dutch John, Utah, in Daggett County, on the west side of Red Creek Canyon in the northern Uinta Mountains, within Ashley National Forest. No specific road or trailhead was confirmed in our research.

UNVERIFIED. This is a former uranium prospect with an adit and opencuts on Forest Service land — general USFS hand-tool collecting rules would typically apply for common rocks and minerals, but a radioactive mineral prospect deserves extra caution (radiation exposure, unmarked shafts) and confirmation of current claim status before anyone visits.

Land manager is Ashley National Forest (USFS), but the deposit was developed under two mining claims — claims can carry private mineral rights even on National Forest surface land, so confirm current status with the Ashley National Forest ranger district before assuming this is open ground. Uranium prospects also carry a radiological safety consideration that ordinary rockhounding sites don't; do not enter the adit or opencuts.