Mine detail: Fort Meade Mine Gardinier

Previously called 'TencorFort Meade'

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Location

Lat / long:

27.68725, -81.84679

Resource(B)

Primary:	Phosphorus-Phosphates
Tertiary:	Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Magnesite
Ore:	Collophane
Gangue:	Dolomite, Montmorillonite, Quartz
Orebody form:	BLANKET (COVERS 2000 SQ MI OF THE COASTAL PLAIN)

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Large
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1967

Geology

Host rock:	Bone Valley;Hawthorn: Underlies Bone Valley Unconformably. Yellow-Tan Dolostone
Host type:	Phosphorite
Structure:	Southern Flank Of The Ocala Uplift, Solution Sags Are The Only Structural Deformations.
Tectonic:	Ocala Uplift Since Mid-Tert.
Alteration processes:	Clay Altered To Lateritic Aluminum Phosphates, Supergene Uranium Enrichment, Montmorillonite Transformed To Kaolinite.

References

MRDS	W031377
DEP	10111554
Reference	{Deposit:: ZELLARS-WILLIAMS, INC., EVALUATION OF THE PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS OF FLORIDA USING MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM, BUMINES OPEN FILE REPORT 112-78, NTIS: PB 286-648/AS, 1978, 199 PP.}{Deposit:: CATHCART, J.B., COLEMAN, A.M., AND MCGREEVY,L.J., 1955, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE ZONE ON PROPERTY OWNED BY U. S. PHOSPHORIC PRODUCTS CO. (TENNESSEE CORP.), LAND-PEBBLE PHOSPHATE DISTRICT, FLA. TRACE ELEMENT MEMORANDUM REPT. 896, 23P.}
Reporter	Sutphin, David M.