Mine detail: Laketown Phosphate Deposits

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Location: Rich County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 41.82715, -111.29135
dep_id: 10041742
mrds_id: M057493
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Prospect
ore: Whitlockite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Surface/Underground
alteration: Phosphatization
conc_proc: Oxidation
Reporter: Tooker, Ed, Tripp, Bryce T.
hrock_unit: Meade Peak Member Of Phosphoria Formation;Brazer Limestone
hrock_type: Shale
Structure: Cache Uplift-Woodruff Thrust, Fault Along E. Side Of Bear Lake
tectonic: Overthrust Belt
References:
  • Analytical Data:: SRC.REF: CHENEY, T.M. 1957. PHOSPHATE IN UTAH, U.G.M.S. BULL. 59.
  • Deposit:: CHENEY, T.M., 1957, PHOSPHATE IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY: BULL 59
  • Deposit:: TRIPP, B.T., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.
  • Deposit:: COFFMAN, J.S. AND SERVICE, A.L., 1967. AN EVAL. OF THE WESTERN PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY AND ITS RESOURCES PART 4: U.S.B.M. R.I. 6934
  • Production:: CHENEY, T.M., 1957, PHOSPHATE IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 59
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