Mine detail: Red Ridge Phosphate Deposit

Previously called 'Bear Creek Lease Block'

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Location

Lat / long:

43.31242, -111.21471

Resource(N)

Primary:

Phosphorus-Phosphates

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Phosphoria Formation-Phosphatic Shale, Chert
Host type:	Shale

References

MRDS	W019296
MAS	160190036
DEP	10089389
Reference	{Deposit:: Gardner, L. S., 1961, Preliminary Geologic Map, Columnar Sections And Trench Sections Of The Irwin Quadrangle, Caribou And Bonneville Counties, Idaho, And Lincoln And Teton Counties, Wyoming: USGS Open-File Report 61-43}{Deposit:: U.S. Bureau Of Mines Open-File Report MLA 8-92, 1992, Sample Nos. 4 And 5: Fig. 4, P. 11; Appendix A, P. 23; Appendix B, P. 25.}
Reporter	Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), Rains, Richard