Mine detail: Phosphate Deposit

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Location: Caribou County, Idaho, United States, North America
Lat / long: 42.87272, -111.69471
dep_id: 10078019
mrds_id: W026132
mas_id: 160290108
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
gangue: Travertine
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
work_type: Surface
ore_ctrl: Structure
Reporter: Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), Western Field Operations Center (WFOC)
hrock_unit: Phosphoria Formation-Phosphatic Shale, Chert, Sandstone;;
hrock_type: Shale
arock_unit: Dinwoody Formation-Shale;Dinwoody Formation-Limestone;Thaynes Formation-Limestone;Thaynes Formation-Sandstone;Thaynes Formation-Shale
arock_type: Limestone
Structure: Major Synclines And Anticlines, Pelican Fault
tectonic: Miogeosyncline
References:
  • Deposit:: Mansfield, G. R., 1927 , Geography, Geology, And Mineral Resources Of Part Of Southeastern Idaho: USGS Prof. Paper 152 , 453 P.
  • Deposit:: Mansfield, G. R., 1929 , Geography, Geology, And Mineral Resources Of The Portneuf Quadrangle, Idaho: USGS Bulletin 803 , 110 P.
  • Deposit:: V.E. Mitchell, Et. Al; Mines And Prospects Map Series, 1981, Preston Quad, Location No. 235
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