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Indian Creek Occurrence

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Phosphorus-Phosphates
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080959
MRDS ID W032500
Record type Site
Current site name Indian Creek Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.97997, 43.30075 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 2 MILES NW OF OBSERVATION PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Observation 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 038N 118W 03 NW Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Location is from a very small-scale sketch map in Bull. 680, p. 47. Probably not as accurate as suggested by this record. Sampl esupposedly in the Phosphoria Fm, but none is mapped within 1 km of these coordinates at 1:500,000.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Analytical data

Result PHOSPHATE SAMPLE ANALYSIS YIELDS: 5.41% AL2O3, 0.46% FE2O3, AND 32.8% P2O5

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.97997, 43.30075
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 1.22M

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

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE PROSPECT

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, p. 46-47, fig. 5, pl. I.

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 from reading simply "USGS BULL 68"

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

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