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Watson Mine

Producer in Polk county in Florida, United States with commodities Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Reserves and resources
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080268
MRDS ID W031376
Record type Site
Current site name Watson Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.81096, 27.72531 (WGS84)
Elevation 35
Location accuracy 10000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Polk(county)

Florida(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bowling Green(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bartow(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Fort Pierce(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Peace(hydrologic unit)

Peace(hydrologic accounting unit)

Peace-Tampa Bay(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Florida Polk

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Tallahassee 032S 025E 04 SE4 OF SE4 OF NE4 Florida

Comments on the location information

  • About 5 Km Southeast of Ft Meade, Us Hwy 17

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Collophane Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 244
USGS model code 34d
Deposit model name Phosphate, warm current type

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Phosphorite
    Rock unit name Bone Valley;Hawthorn: Underlies Bone Valley Unconformably. Yellow-Tan Dolostone
    Rock description Bone Valley;Hawthorn: Underlies Bone Valley Unconformably. Yellow-Tan Dolostone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.81096, 27.72531
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Hawthorn Fm.

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET (COVERS 2000 SQ MI OF THE COASTAL PLAIN)
    Dip SLOPES OF 5 FT/MILE ARE COMMON TO BONE VALLEY FM.
    Thickness 5M
    Depth to top 8M
    Depth to bottom 13M

Comments on the geologic information

  • Land Pebble Deposit
  • THE BONE VALLEY FM WAS DEPOSITED ON THE ERODED SURFACE OF THE HAWTHORN FM. BY A TRANSGRESSING SEA THAT REWORKED AND SORTED THE HIGHLY PHOSPHATIC RESIDUAL OF THE HAWTHORN FM. PHOSPHATE RECOVERED IS FROM THE LOWER BONEVALLEY-WHICH IS LESS WEATHERED-AND THE UPPER RESIDUAL PART OF THE HAWTHORN. RIGGS (1967) REDEFINED THE STRATIGRAPHY CREATING HAWTHORN GROUP WHICHINCLUDES ROCKSPREVIOUSLY PLACED IN HAWTHORN AND BONE VALLEY FMS. BONE VALLEY FM. WAS THEN SUBDIVIDED INTO 11 MEMBERS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Central Florida Phosphate District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Swift Agricultural Chemical Corp.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1954
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Uranium U3O8 0.018 wt-pct Uranium Trace 1954

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1214.1HA

Comments on the workings information

  • Several Fuller'S Earth Pits In Vicinity Active
  • 1320 ACRES MINED OUT BY 1954

Comments on development

  • PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS ARE COMMONLY LOCATED USING GAMMA RAY LOGGING, AIRBORNE RADIOACTIVITYLOGGING AND GEIGER COUNTER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CENTRAL FLORIDA PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY AREAWIDE IMPACT ASSESSMENT PROGRAM, EXISTING LAND USE, VOL IV, PREPARED FOR U.S.E.P.A BY TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC, JUNE 1977.

  • Deposit

    SWIFT AGRI. CHEM. CORP. ANNUAL REPT., 1976

  • Deposit

    ZELLARS-WILLIAMS INC., EVALUATION OF THE PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS OF FLORIDA USING THE MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM, BUMINES OPEN FILE REPORT 112-78, NTIS: PB 286 648/AS, 1978, 199 PP.

  • Deposit

    ATLAS AND PLAT BOOK, POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA. ROCKFORD MAP PUBLISHERS, INC., ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, 1977.

  • Deposit

    KRAUSS AND OTHERS, 1984, INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY SUMMARY REPORT-- PHOSPHATE: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 930-C, 41 P.

  • Deposit

    GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP, POLKCOUNTY FLORIDA DEPART. OF TRANSPOR. 1971 BOWLING GREEN, BEREAH QUADRANGLES 7 1/2 MINUTE SERIES USGS 1955 1956

  • Other Database

    ISMI

  • Production

    KRAUSS AND OTHERS, 1984

  • Deposit

    Patterson, S.H., 1974, Fuller'S Earth And Other Industrial Mineral Resources Of The Meigs-Attapulgus-Quincy District, Georgia And Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 828, 45 Pp.Patterson, S.H., 1974, Fuller'S Earth And Other Industrial Mineral Resources Of The Meigs-Attapulgus-Quincy District, Georgia And Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 828, 45 Pp.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit This Record Was Compiled For the International Strategic Minerals Inventory. The Data Were Used In Preparation of the USGS Circular 930 Series of Reports. Mineral Resource Categories and Codes Herein Are From the International Classification System Recomm
Deposit PHOSPHORITE STUDIES WERE MOTIVATED SOLELY BY THE OCCURRENCE OF URANIUM AS A TRACE SUBSTITUENT OF APATITE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit LAND-PEBBLE DEPOSIT.THICKNESS VARIES DUE TO HAWTHORN KARST TOPOGRAPHY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 28-FEB-1969 Patterson, Sam H. U.S. Geological Survey SEE ISM0376
Editor 04-NOV-2002 Nicholson, S.W. U.S. Geological Survey reformated date column; calculated latitude and longitude in decimal degrees; added Location Precision, Continent, Country, State, Commodity Code, Ore Minerals Code fields; changed Major Commodity fie

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