Mine detail: Graves Creek Phosphate Property

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Location

Lat / long:

42.93522, -111.85892

Resource(N)

Primary:	Phosphorus-Phosphates
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Phosphoria Formation-Phosphatic Shale, Chert;Wells Formation-Sandstone, Limestone;Brazer Limestone;Dinwoody Formation-Limestone, Siltstone, Shale
Host type:	Shale
Structure:	Graves Creek Syncline, Twenty Four Mile Anticline, Thrust And Block Faults Of Bannock Thrust Zone
Tectonic:	Miogeosyncline

References

MRDS	W026176
MAS	160290057
DEP	10089429
Reference	{Deposit:: Mansfield, G. R., 1927 , Geography, Geology, And Mineral Resources Of Part Of Southeastern Idaho: USGS Prof. Paper 152 , 453 P.}{Deposit:: Service, A. L., 1966 , An Evaluation Of The Western Phosphate Industry And Its Resources, Part 3 , Idaho: USBM Rept. Inv. 6801 , 201 P., Table 58 P. 182}{Deposit:: Mansfield, G. R., 1929 , Geography, Geology, And Mineral Resources Of The Portneuf Quadrangle, Idaho: USGS Bulletin 803 , 110 P.}
Reporter	Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), Western Field Operations Center (WFOC)