Mine detail: Palisades Creek Coal and Phosphate Deposit

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Location: Bonneville County, Idaho, United States, North America
Lat / long: 43.46912, -111.0977
dep_id: 10073283
mrds_id: W019284
mas_id: 160190069
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Trace mineral: Coal, Oil Shale
Operation type: Surface
Deposit type: Sedimentary
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Coal, Oil Shale
Reporter: Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), Winters, Dick
hrock_unit: Phosphoria Formation-Phosphatic Shale, Chert;Frontier Formation-Coal
hrock_type: Shale,Coal
disc_yr: 1919
References:
  • 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.
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