Mine detail: Phosphate Deposit

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Location

Lat / long:

42.93852, -111.40861

Resource(N)

Primary:	Phosphorus-Phosphates
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Phosphoria Formation-Phosphatic Shale, Chert, Sandstone;;;
Host type:	Shale
Associated rock:	Thaynes Formation-Sandstone;Thaynes Formation-Limestone;Thaynes Formation-Shale;Dinwoody Formation-Shale;Dinwoody Formation-Limestone;Nugget Sandstone-Sandstone;Nugget Sandstone-Limestone
Associated type:	Limestone
Structure:	Thrust Faults, Williamsburg And Lanes Butte Synclines, Little Gray Anticline, Meadow Creek Graben
Tectonic:	Miogeosyncline

References

MRDS	W026137
MAS	160290084
DEP	10078022
Reference	{Deposit:: Mansfield, G. R., 1927 , Geography, Geology, And Mineral Resources Of Part Of Southeastern Idaho: USGS Prof. Paper 152 , 453 P.}{Deposit:: Davidson, D. F., And Others, 1953 , Stratigraphic Sections Of The Phosphoria Formation In Idaho, 1949 , Part 2 : USGS Circ. 305 , 28 P.}{Deposit:: V.E. Mitchell, Et. Al; Mines And Prospects Map Series, 1981, Preston Quad, Location No. 32}
Reporter	Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), Western Field Operations Center (WFOC)