Utah · Beaver County
Past Producer
Montreal Mine
Beaver County, Utah, United States
Iron
Copper
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Commodities
Primary
Iron
Secondary
Copper
Commodity type
M
Deposit
Deposit type
Contact Metamorphic
Deposit size
S
Workings
Surface/Underground
Orebody form
LENS/POD
Materials
Gangue
Muscovite
Other materials
Magnetite
Geology
Host rock
Dolomite,Evaporite,Chert · Kaibab-Plympton Undiff;Torroweap Formation
Associated rock
Diorite · Undiff Intrusive-Quartz Monzonite;Undiff Volcanics-Porphyritic Andesites
Structure
Basin And Range/Thrust Belt/Plateau Transition, Assymetric North Plunging Anticline (Rocky Range)
Tectonic setting
Paleozoic Miogeosyncline
Alteration
Skarn-Thermal Metamorphism.
Economic & production
Development status
Past Producer
First production
1912
Discovery year
1900
Identification
Deposit ID
10087245
MRDS ID
D005832
Alternate names
Niagara Falls Tunnel
Region
NA
Data score
B
Coordinates
38.45024, -113.06413
References
WHELAN, J A, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ROCKY RANGE: UGMS IN PRESSEVERTS, M L, 1979, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY.