Montreal Mine

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Iron, Copper
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087245
MRDS ID D005832
Record type Site
Current site name Montreal Mine
Alternate or previous names Niagara Falls Tunnel
Related records 10300117

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.06413, 38.45024 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position 4 MILES NW OF MILFORD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Milford(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaver Bottoms-Upper Beaver(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 Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 011W 23 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4, NW 1/4, SW 1/4, SECTION 23.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Muscovite Gangue
Magnetite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Skarn-Thermal Metamorphism.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Undiff Intrusive-Quartz Monzonite;Undiff Volcanics-Porphyritic Andesites
    Rock description Undiff Intrusive-Quartz Monzonite;Undiff Volcanics-Porphyritic Andesites
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Evaporite
    Rock unit name Kaibab-Plympton Undiff;Torroweap Formation
    Rock description Kaibab-Plympton Undiff;Torroweap Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.06413, 38.45024

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range/Thrust Belt/Plateau Transition
Type of structure Local
Structure description Assymetric North Plunging Anticline (Rocky Range)

Ore body information

  • General form LENS/POD
    Plunge 70 DEG
    Plunge direction N60W

Comments on the geologic information

  • 1915 ASSAY: CU=2.13% FE=36.04% AG=.71% INSOLVABLE=13.70%

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1900
Year of first production 1912

Mining district

District name Rocky

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 365.76M
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN PIT AND 2 LEVELS OF UNDERGROUND WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WHELAN, J A, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ROCKY RANGE: UGMS IN PRESS

  • Production

    EVERTS, M L, 1979, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINED OUT: MINED FROM: 1912, 1940-48, 1949, 1951, 1953-1957

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-JUL-1985 Shubat, Michael A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references