Mine detail: Freeman Ridge Phosphate Property

Previously called 'Diamond CreekStewart Flat, Area B, 16-18Stewart Flat, Area C, 19-23Stewart Flat, Area C, 26-34North Freeman Ridge'

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Location

Lat / long:

42.66936, -111.19608

Resource(B)

Primary:	Phosphorus-Phosphates
Tertiary:	Fluorine-Fluorite, REE, Uranium, Vanadium
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Other material:	Calcite, Collophane, Dolomite, Feldspar, Limonite, Muscovite, Quartz, Sericite

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Phosphoria Formation-Phosphatic Shale, Chert;Wells Formation-Sandstone, Limestone;Dinwoody Formation-Limestone, Shale;Thaynes Formation-Sandstone, Limestone, Shale
Host type:	Shale
Structure:	Georgetown Syncline, Snowdrift Anticline, Dry Valley Anticline, Dry Valley Fault
Tectonic:	Miogeosyncline

References

MRDS	W026170
MAS	160290065
DEP	10096455
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.}{Deposit:: Sheldon, R. P., And Others, 1953 , Stratigraphic Sections Of The Phosphoria Formation In Idaho, 1949 , Part 1 : USGS Circ. 304 , 30 P.}{Deposit:: Garrand, Leonard. 1975. Phosphate Study Of Se Idaho For U.S.}{Deposit:: Montgomery, K.M., Cheney, T.M. 1967. U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1217}{Deposit:: Richards, R.W. And Mansfield, G.R., 1914, USGS Bulletin 577}
Reporter	Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), Crockett