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The Mineral Mountains are a 28-mile (45 km) long〔Utah DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, pp. 41, 42,49, 50.〕 mountain range located in east Beaver County, Utah. The range is in a transition position. The Escalante Desert is to its southwest, the Black Rock Desert volcanic field is north, and north and northwest adjacent to the volcanic field is the Sevier Desert. The Pavant-Tushar Mountains massif complex lies east. The west side of the range borders the small Milford Valley, a narrowing between the Star Range west, and the Minerals east; the Beaver River (Utah), turns due-north through Milford, Utah and enters the regions at the northeast of the Esclante Desert, and the southwest of the Black Rock Desert volcanic field. (Black Rock, Utah lies 23-mi north.)〔Utah DeLorme Atlas, p. 41.〕 Milford Flat at the Mineral Mountains was the origin of the Milford Flat Fire which burned eastwards beyond Interstate 15 and Cove Fort into the Tushar-Pavant Mountains. Numerous peaks exist in the range; in the northeast at the headwater region of Cunningham Wash is a small ''Beaver County Wildlife Management Area''. At the range's east, lies a mostly north-trending, complex shaped Beaver Valley, where the Mineral Mountains form its west and north borders. The valley has Beaver, Utah, the countyseat and the convergence point of numerous streams, creeks, washes and rivercourses; it is the source region of the Beaver River (Utah) before it enters the Escalante Desert. ==Description== The range has a north-south length of about 28-mi. The northeast has an off-lying triangular mountain section which causes the north of Beaver Valley to bifurcate. East of the mountain section, I-15 transits to Sulphurdale. The section contains many peaks, with the highest being Gillies Hill, . The southwest side of the section contains south-flowing Cunningham Wash. The south-southeast side of the range is a straight stretch from Cunningham Wash, north and the Minersville Reservoir, south, a collection of numerous watercourses from Beaver Valley, and neighboring mountains. Beaver River (Utah) enters the reservoir and leaves flowing due-west at the southern Mineral Mountains terminus. The terminus of the range comes to a V-shaped point; the river stretch, and mountains, are only 4-mi wide from the outlet of the Beaver River at the reservoir. The range then immediately turns into a stretch of southwest foothills, also a short stretch, only about 9-mi long.〔Utah DeLorme Atlas, p. 49.〕 The northwest stretch begins at that point, about 7 or 8-mi southeast of Milford; it transts to an east-west stretch at the north, which continues to the outlying mountain section east, and its junction with the west flank of the Pavant-Tushar Mountains massif. A small, narrow 3-mi wide ridgeline feeds north-northwest from the north stretch; it extends about 6-mi〔Utah DeLorme Atlas, p. 42.〕 toward the Black Rock Desert volcanic field region, and contains Pinnacle Pass, and a highpoint of Antelope Mountain, . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mineral Mountains (Utah)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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