Mine detail: Jhamarkotra

Previously called 'Jhamar-Kotra'

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Location: Rajasthan, India, Asia
Lat / long: 24.58259, 73.51719
dep_id: 10084846
mrds_id: W700060
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Apatite
gangue: Chlorite, Epidote, Muscovite, Quartz, Tremolite
orebody_fm: BEDDED
model: 243: Phosphate, upwelling type
alteration: Greenschist-Level Metamorphism
Reporter: Orris, Greta J.
hrock_unit: Jhamarkotra Formation;Aravalli Supergroup
hrock_type: Limestone,Dolomite
References:
  • 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.
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