Mine detail: Palisades Creek Coal and Phosphate Deposit

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Location

Lat / long:

43.46912, -111.0977

Resource(N)

Primary:	Phosphorus-Phosphates
Tertiary:	Coal, Oil Shale
Ore:	Coal, Oil Shale
Discovery year:	1919

Production

Operation type:	Surface
Deposit type:	Sedimentary
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Phosphoria Formation-Phosphatic Shale, Chert;Frontier Formation-Coal
Host type:	Shale,Coal

References

MRDS	W019284
MAS	160190069
DEP	10073283
Reference	{Deposit:: SCHULTZ, A. R., 1918, A GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE FOR PHOSPHATE AND COAL IN SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO AND WESTERN WYOMING: USGS BULL. 680, 84 P.}{Deposit:: CONDIT, D. D., 1920, OIL SHALE IN WESTERN MONTANA, SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO, AND ADJACENT PARTS OF WYOMING AND UTAH: USGS BULL. 711-B, P. 15-40}{Deposit:: 1918 RECON A. R. SCHULTZ, BULL. 680}{Deposit:: 1920 RECON D. D. CONDIT, BULL. 711-B}{Deposit:: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. COUNTY REPORT 5, 1961, P. 64.}
Reporter	Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), Winters, Dick