Mine detail: Phosphate Deposit

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Location: Caribou County, Idaho, United States, North America
Lat / long: 42.69822, -111.10889
dep_id: 10089421
mrds_id: W026158
mas_id: 160290100
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Operation type: Surface
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Prospect
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
work_type: Surface
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: Wells Formation-Sandstone;Wells Formation-Limestone
arock_type: Sandstone,Limestone
Structure: Boulder Creek Anticline, Meade Thrust Fault
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:: Sheldon, R. P., And Others, 1953 , Stratigraphic Sections Of The Phosphoria Formation In Idaho, 1949 , Part 1 : USGS Circ. 304 , 30 P.
  • Deposit:: V.E. Mitchell, Et. Al; Mines And Prospects Map Series, 1981, Preston Quad, Location No. 132
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