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Show Mineral Potential high in Piute New geologic studies of the Tushar Mountains of Piute County, where metal mining has been going on for more than a century, indicate in-dicate a significant potential for the discovery of additional ad-ditional ore deposits, according ac-cording to three U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, scientists. The three geologists, said they are not claiming a mineral discovery, but believe there is "excellent potential for discovery" of new deposits of gold; silver, lead, zinc, uranium, molybdenum and possibly other economic minerals in the Deer Trail Mountain-Alunite Mountain-Alunite Ridge area. Part of this Tushar Mountain area is federally owned and the rest privately owned. "Only peripheral types of deposits have been developed since ore was discovered in the 1870s," said Cunningham, the principal investigator on the project. "The potential for undiscovered deposits at depth near the center of the mineralized area has yet to be tested, but is believed to be excellent. These deposits probably would be of the large, low-grade types where copper or molybdenum molyb-denum minerals are sparsely spar-sely disseminated through large volumes of rocks." He said the study of the Tushar Mountains is part of a larger USGS program to evaluate the mineral potential of an 8,120-square-mile area of Utah that includes in-cludes all of Beaver County and parts of Piute, Iron, Garfield, Sevier and Millard Counties. |