Mine detail: Jhamarkotra

Previously called 'Jhamar-Kotra'

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Location

Lat / long: 24.58259, 73.51719

Resource(N)

Primary: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Ore: Apatite
Gangue: Chlorite, Epidote, Muscovite, Quartz, Tremolite
Orebody form: BEDDED

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Yes
Development status: Producer

Geology

Host rock:Jhamarkotra Formation;Aravalli Supergroup
Host type:Limestone,Dolomite
Alteration processes:Greenschist-Level Metamorphism

References

MRDSW700060
DEP10084846
Reference{Deposit:: KRAUSS AND OTHERS, 1984, INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY SUMMARY REPORT--PHOSPHATE: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 930-C, 41 P.}{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, 1987, JANUARY, P. 63.}{Deposit:: CHAUCHAN, D.S., AND SISODIA, M.S., 1984, NATURE OF UDAIPUR PHOSPHORITE AND ITS GENETIC IMPLICATIONS: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA SPECIAL PUBLICATION 17, P. 79-104.}{Deposit:: PANDYA, M.K., SRIVASTAVA, S.B.L., AND DWIVEDI, C.S., 1984, PETROGRAPHY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE JHAMARKOTRA PHOSPHORITE DEPOSIT, UDAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, IN PHOSPHORITE: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA SPECIAL PUBLICATION 17, P. 111-127.}{Reserve-Resource:: KRAUSS AND OTHERS, 1984, FOR THE 1977 ESTIMATES. THE 1984 ESTIMATE IS FROM CHAUCHAN AND SISODIA, 1984.}
ReporterOrris, Greta J.