Mine detail: Phosphate Deposit

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Location

Lat / long:

42.95162, -111.55891

Resource(N)

Primary:	Phosphorus-Phosphates
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Phosphoria Formation-Phosphatic Shale, Chert, Sandstone;;;
Host type:	Shale
Associated rock:	Wells Formation-Sandstone;Wells Formation-Limestone;Dinwoody Formation-Shale;Dinwoody Formation-Limestone;Thaynes Formation-Limestone;Thaynes Formation-Sandstone;Thaynes Formation-Shale
Associated type:	Limestone
Structure:	Little Gray Anticline, Snowdrift Anticline, Georgetown Syncline, Meadow Creek Graben, Limerock And Enoch Valley Faults
Tectonic:	Miogeosyncline

References

MRDS	W026134
MAS	160290132
DEP	10078020
Reference	Mansfield, G. R., 1927 , Geography, Geology, And Mineral Resources Of Part Of Southeastern Idaho: USGS Prof. Paper 152 , 453 P
Reporter	Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), Western Field Operations Center (WFOC)