Mine detail: Montreal Mine

Previously called 'Niagara Falls Tunnel'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.45024, -113.06413

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron
Secondary:	Copper
Gangue:	Muscovite
Orebody form:	LENS/POD
Other material:	Magnetite
Discovery year:	1900

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Contact Metamorphic
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1912

Geology

Host rock:	Kaibab-Plympton Undiff;Torroweap Formation
Host type:	Dolomite,Evaporite,Chert
Associated rock:	Undiff Intrusive-Quartz Monzonite;Undiff Volcanics-Porphyritic Andesites
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Basin And Range/Thrust Belt/Plateau Transition, Assymetric North Plunging Anticline (Rocky Range)
Tectonic:	Paleozoic Miogeosyncline
Alteration processes:	Skarn-Thermal Metamorphism.

References

MRDS	D005832
DEP	10087245
Reference	{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.}
Reporter	Everts, Michael L., Shubat, Michael A.