The Iron Mountain District , also known as the Iron Springs District, is a large, high-grade iron deposit in southwestern Utah , near Cedar City . It is currently in care and maintenance status (not actively producing iron ore) by CML Metals Corporation, a division of Palladon Ventures and Luxor Capital. Previous owners include Geneva Steel and U.S. Steel .
3-485: The district is made of three primary topographic highs along an approximately 17 mile lineament : Iron Mountain to the southwest, Granite Mountain in the middle, and The Three Peaks in the northwest. Mineralization in this district occurred as rings around the highs as a skarn , a replacement of existing carbonate rock material with high-grade iron ore , mostly in the form of high-grade (>50%Fe in places) magnetite , but also locally hematite . Minor pyrite
6-591: Is also present. Hot fluids are sourced from mid- Tertiary intrusions , which core all three areas. Magnetite and hematite occur as replacements in the Jurassic limestone around three Laramide orogeny , quartz monzonite porphyry , laccolith intrusions . The iron ore was discovered by a Mormon scouting party in 1849, and furnaces were established in Cedar City in 1852, and then Old Irontown in 1868, to produce pig iron . Total production by 1965 from
9-441: The district was 72,136,297 long tons of iron ore. Major areas of iron deposits and their associated mines/pits/ore bodies include: 37°44′59″N 113°14′05″W / 37.74972°N 113.23472°W / 37.74972; -113.23472 ( Iron Springs ) This article about mining is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Topographic Too Many Requests If you report this error to
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