Burnt Timber Canyon (trench CP-48)

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Phosphorus-Phosphates
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080839
MRDS ID W032218
Record type Site
Current site name Burnt Timber Canyon (trench CP-48)
Alternate or previous names Unidentified Occurrence, USGS Lot CP-48

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.98136, 43.22909 (WGS84)
Relative position 1.5 MILES WEST OF DEADHORSE PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ferry Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Jackson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Driggs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Palisades(hydrologic unit)

Snake Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Caribou-Targhee National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 037N 118W 3 N2 of NW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • POSITION SCALED FROM 7 1/2 MIN. GEOLOGIC QUADRANGLE MAP. In Burnt Timber Canyon.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Phosphorite
    Rock unit name Phosphoria
    Rock description Phosphoria
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.98136, 43.22909

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description St. John Thrust Complex
Type of structure Local
Structure description Trench Is 400 Feet South Of A E-W Trending Normal Fault On The Dow Nthrown Block

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Strike N82E
    Dip 12S
    Thickness 1.07M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Targhee National Forest

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • JOBIN, 1972, MAP GQ-1027, trench CP-48.

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT TRENCH

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Jobin, D.A., 1972, Geologic map of the Ferry Peak quadrangle, Lincoln County, Wyoming: USGS Geologic Quadrangle map GQ-1027, scale 1:24,000.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "HERE A 1.0 FOOT BED, 0.5 FOOT ABOVE THE BASE OF THE MEADE PEAK AVERAGES 21.74 PERCENT P205 AND A 2.9-FOOT-THICK ZONE 2 FEET HIGHER AVERAGES 18.0 PERCENT P205; THE UPPERMOST 3.5 FEET AVERAGES 30.93 PERCENT P205." (GQ-1027)
Deposit 1972 DIREXPL JOBIN, P205 CONTENT UP TO 30.93.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-78 Suekawa, Harry S. (Barari, Rachel A.) U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 16-JUL-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey corrected reference citations.

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.