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SE Idaho Phosphate District

Producer in Idaho, United States with commodities Vanadium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Ownership information
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000656
MRDS ID ISM0339
Record type District
Current site name SE Idaho Phosphate District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.18409, 42.49992 (WGS84)
Relative position 1:1,000,000 SCALE MAP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Caribou(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Meade Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Preston(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Preston(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Salt(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
United States Idaho

Commodities

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.18409, 42.49992
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Producer
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1906
Year of first production 1906
Production years Still producing in 2011

Mining district

District name SE IDAHO PHOSPHATE DISTRICT

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner MONSANTO
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner SIMPLOT
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner BEKER
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Geology

    Manfield, W.C. and Girty, G.H., 1927, Geography, geology, and mineral resources of part of southeastern Idaho, with descriptions of Carboniferous fossils: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 152, 453 p.

  • Deposit

    GULBRANDSEN, R. AND KRIER, D.J., 1980: LARGE AND RICH PHOSPHORUS RESOURCES IN THE PHOSPHORIA FORMATION IN THE SODA SPRINGS AREA, SOUTH EASTERN IDAHO. U.S.G.S. BULL. 1496, 25 P, 6 FIG, 7 TAB.

  • Deposit

    CATHCART, J.B., SHELDON, R.P., AND GULBRANDSEN, A.R., 1983: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 888

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Updater 11-JAN-11 Causey, J. Douglas U.S. Geological Survey Updated ownership and references No original Reporter for this record

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO. — dissolved ~1985
    Acquired by Rhône-Poulenc in 1985; agricultural and industrial chemical businesses dispersed through multiple owners over the following two decades.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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