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Raymond Canyon Phosphate

Past Producer 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10254139
MRDS ID DC06897
MAS/MILS ID 560230014
Record type Site
Current site name Raymond Canyon Phosphate
Alternate or previous names Unknown (in Raymond Canyon)

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Geographic coordinates: Elevation UTM Precision Relative position Point location
Main Entrance -111.02167, 42.2775 (WGS84) 2133 10 Several caved adits and shafts at constriction in Raymond Canyon. Coordinates are for caved adit on N side of creek.
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Main Entrance -111.02167, 42.27694 (WGS84) 10 Caved adit south of creek.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Geneva(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Preston(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Preston(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Central Bear(hydrologic unit)

Upper Bear(hydrologic accounting unit)

Bear(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 026N 118W 6 C of N2 of N2 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Phosphoria Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Permian
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Permian

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -111.02167, 42.2775
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Main Entrance (2) -111.02167, 42.27694
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner AGRO CHEMICAL PRODU
    Year 1975

Comments on the production information

  • A very vague and unsubstantiated record. A.B. Wilson changed development status from Producer to Past Producer as the sute has apparently been abandoned for decades (as of site visit 8-aug-2010). There are several caved workings both north and south of the creek. There is no reliable reference.

Comments on the workings information

  • At least 5 workings. An adit on either side of the creek, two dumps on the hillside to the north suggest at least 2 shafts or adits, one dump on the south hillside suggests one working there.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MESA MET-NONMET MINE FINE REF MINOBRAS INDUSTRIAL MINERA

  • Deposit

    Wyoming Industrial Minerals, 1975, MINOBRAS, p. 43.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, WGS Bull. 50, p. 148.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "There is a 3.1 ft bed which yielded 70.1% B.P.I., but recent sampling suggests that the B.P.I. content of this bed is but 54.5%." (Bull. 50, p. 148).
General Because this record was formerly mislocated in the center of the section AB Wilson did not recognize that there was already a record for the deposit in Raymond Canyon and added a new one: 10400409. That new record had now been merged with this ammended, existing record.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2010-06-07 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey revised 27-aug-2010, after 8-aug-10 site vist.

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