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Show 41 and the hematite has produced Mountain will reach avera,,ed about 54-56 per cent iron in It is estimated that iron 2) Table (See recent years. Eagle ore 2,250,000 tons a hematite proximately 360 are ore miles. to the Minnequa Plant, at this mine Operations tons of iron ore, running Ir: I ,. iron major ore major deposits belt about three miles wide and about million tons, and in of 1300 feet.40 mum Bull I I underground; hence, An average of ap Table (See occur 2) in Iron and centered in the Iron Mountain district, and are range in size from small I of Utah a p- Washington Counties, approximately 240 miles south of the Geneva Steel Plant. a I deposits Valley to pods Deposits large deposits containing in or Range and on Blue Mountain, in the Iron quality, \_:n deposits Cache, Box of commercial work carried on under the 39Kaiser 40Young, 41See Steel OPe report is strategic along a known maxi a located at also ore of Iron but in doubtful occur County. quantities occur and Juab Counties. 41 summarization of Annual Report, cit., p, 1, and AUsman, OPe c OPe i t,. "The Western Steel Indu s t r y " , , exploratory cit. p. OPe in County minerals program from 1942 to Corporation, Mahoney, of They several the Beaver-Iron ea.stern part Elder, Morgan, Wasatch, The Bureau of Mines are The comprise long. surface to Outcroppings line, and northeast of Paragonah ore near- Washington County and in the Cove Mountains. the Wah Wah miles twenty-three from surface depth in about 47-49 pe'r cent iron, have been shipped annually in recent years. The Corporation distance of a are costlier than at mines in California and Utah. proximately 600,000 at 39 by 1953. year The Sunrise Mine of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Wyoming ships production ore L cit., p. 15. |
