Mine detail: Laketown Phosphate Deposits

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Location

Lat / long:

41.82715, -111.29135

Resource(N)

Primary:	Phosphorus-Phosphates
Ore:	Whitlockite
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host rock:	Meade Peak Member Of Phosphoria Formation;Brazer Limestone
Host type:	Shale
Structure:	Cache Uplift-Woodruff Thrust, Fault Along E. Side Of Bear Lake
Tectonic:	Overthrust Belt
Alteration processes:	Phosphatization

References

MRDS	M057493
DEP	10041742
Reference	{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}
Reporter	Tooker, Ed, Tripp, Bryce T.