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Palisades Creek Coal and Phosphate Deposit

Occurrence in Bonneville county in Idaho, United States with commodities Phosphorus-Phosphates, Coal, Oil Shale
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10073283
MRDS ID W019284
MAS/MILS ID 0160190069
Record type Site
Current site name Palisades Creek Coal and Phosphate Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.0977, 43.46912 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position 17.75 MI S OF DRIGGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Bonneville(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Palisades Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Palisades(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 Idaho Bonneville

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 002N 045E 25 Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary
Coal Tertiary
Oil Shale Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Coal Ore
Oil Shale Ore

Analytical data

Result PHOSPHATE SAMPLE ASSAYED 12.69% P2O5 OR 27.8% CA3(PO4)2
Result SHALE SAMPLES GAVE 15.8% P2O5, 0.41 - 0.85%N, AND UP TO 3 GAL OIL/TON SHALE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Phosphoria Formation-Phosphatic Shale, Chert;Frontier Formation-Coal
    Rock description Phosphoria Formation-Phosphatic Shale, Chert;Frontier Formation-Coal
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Coal

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.0977, 43.46912
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1919

Mining district

District name Pine Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Targhee National Forest

Comments on development

  • Prospected Originally For Coal

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHULTZ, A. R., 1918, A GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE FOR PHOSPHATE AND COAL IN SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO AND WESTERN WYOMING: USGS BULL. 680, 84 P.

  • Deposit

    CONDIT, D. D., 1920, OIL SHALE IN WESTERN MONTANA, SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO, AND ADJACENT PARTS OF WYOMING AND UTAH: USGS BULL. 711-B, P. 15-40

  • Deposit

    1918 RECON A. R. SCHULTZ, BULL. 680

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON D. D. CONDIT, BULL. 711-B

  • Deposit

    IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. COUNTY REPORT 5, 1961, P. 64.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1977 Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 30-JAN-1995 Winters, Dick U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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