Mine detail: Phosphate Deposit

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Location: Caribou County, Idaho, United States, North America
Lat / long: 42.77352, -111.1189
dep_id: 10089420
mrds_id: W026157
mas_id: 160290089
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Operation type: Surface
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
ore_ctrl: Structure
Reporter: Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), Western Field Operations Center (WFOC)
hrock_unit: Phosphoria Formation-Phosphatic Shale, Chert, Sandstone;
hrock_type: Shale
arock_unit: Thaynes Formation-Shale;Thaynes Formation-Limestone;Thaynes Formation-Sandstone
arock_type: Limestone
Structure: Meade Thrust Fault, Boulder Anticline, Spring Creek Syncline
tectonic: Miogeosyncline
References:
  • Deposit:: Mansfield, G. R., 1927 , Geography, Geology, And Mineral Resources Of Part Of Southeastern Idaho: USGS Prof. Paper 152 , 453 P
  • Deposit:: V.E. Mitchell, Et. Al; Mines And Prospects Map Series, 1981, Preston Quad, Location No. 65
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