North Florida-South Georgia District

Past Producer in Hamilton county in Florida, United States with commodities Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000666
MRDS ID ISM0379
Record type District
Current site name North Florida-South Georgia District
Alternate or previous names Suwannee River Mine, Swift Creek Mine, Deep Creek Prospect, North Lake City Deposit, Brooks-Dukes Deposit, Osceola National Forest Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.80817, 30.40023 (WGS84)
Relative position 1:1,000,000 SCALE MAP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hamilton(county)

Florida(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Genoa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lake City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Valdosta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Suwannee(hydrologic unit)

Suwannee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Suwannee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Florida Hamilton
United States Florida Columbia
United States Florida Baker

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary

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 > Carbonate
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.80817, 30.40023

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Orris and Chernoff (2004) describe type of phosphorite: Pebbles; granular phosphatic matrix; reworked, concentrated

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1930
Year of first production 1964

Mining district

District name NORTH FLORIDA-SOUTH GEORGIA DISTRICT

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CO.
  • Type Owner
    Owner MONSANTO
  • Type Owner
    Owner PITTS-MIDWAY COAL
  • Type Owner
    Owner KERR-MCGEE
  • Type Operator
    Owner OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CO.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Orris and Chernoff (2002) describe resources as "Exploitable -- 300 to 400 Mt concentrate at about 32% P2O5, Suwannee River + Swift Creek mines + Deep Creek prospect (1983) + 300 Mt concentrate at 30-32% P2O5, North Lake City = Brooker-Dukes deposits (1983)"

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CATHCART, J.B., SHELDON, R.P., GULBRANDSEN, R.A. (1983) U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    Orris, G.J., and Chernoff, C.B., 2004, Table of world phosphate deposits, in Hein, J.R., ed., Life cycle of the Phosphoria Formation: From deposition to the post-mining environment: Elsevier, Amsterdam, Handbook of exploration and environmental geochemistry v. 8, CD-ROM.

  • Deposit

    Cathcart, J.B., 1989, The phosphate deposits of Florida, with a note on the deposits in Georgia and South Carolina, USA. In A.J.G. Notholt, R.P. Sheldon and D.F. Davidson (eds), Phosphate deposits of the world, Volume 2-- Phosphate rock resources. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 62-70.

  • Deposit

    British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1987. A world survey of phosphate deposits. The British Sulphur Corp. Ltd., London, 274 p.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit This District is coincident with a large, widespread deposit in northern Florida and southern Georgia.
General This is same district described by Orris and Chernoff (2004), Deposit_No 963.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Updater 03-JAN-11 Causey, J. Douglas U.S. Geological Survey No reporter listed for this record. I made minor changes to some of the info.

Beyond USGS

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