Mine detail: Bear Creek Phosphate Deposit

Previously called 'Bear Creek Lease Block'

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Location

Lat / long: 43.28852, -111.22391

Resource(N)

Primary: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Discovery year: 1951

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:Phosphoria Formation-Phosphatic Shale Chert
Host type:Shale
Structure:Anticline Trending N 35 Deg W And Plunging Se

References

MRDSW019308
MAS160190139
DEP10089392
Reference{Deposit:: Savage, C. N., 1961 , Geology And Mineral Resources Of Bonneville County: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology County Rept. No. 5 , 108 P.}{Deposit:: Swanson, R. W., And Others, 1953 , Progress Report On Investigations Of Western Phosphate Deposits: USGS Circ. 297 , 16 P.}{Deposit:: Smart, R A., And Others, 1954 , Stratigraphic Sections Of The Phosphoria Formation In Idaho: USGS Circ. 327 , 22 P.}{Deposit:: 1953 Recon R. W. Swanson And Others, Circ. 297}{Deposit:: 1954 Recon R. A. Smart And Others, Circ. 327}{Deposit:: 1961 Recon Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology County Rept. No. 5}{Deposit:: Minobras, 1975, Idaho Industrial Minerals, P. 21.}{Deposit:: U.S. Bureau Of Mines Open-File Report MLA 8-92, 1992, Sample Nos. 126-128: Fig. 4, P. 11; Appendix A, P. 24; Appendix B, P. 26.}
ReporterSiefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), Rains, Richard