Western Us Phosphate Field

Producer in Caribou county in Idaho, United States with commodity Vanadium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Geologic structures
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Ownership information
  10. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000857
MRDS ID ISM0747
Record type District
Current site name Western Us Phosphate Field
Alternate or previous names Phosphoria Formation

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.60081, 42.64992 (WGS84)
Relative position SODA SPRINGS, IDAHO (SITE OF V-MILL PROCESSING FERROPHOSPHORUS)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Caribou(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Soda Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Soda Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Preston(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bear Lake(hydrologic unit)

Lower Bear(hydrologic accounting unit)

Bear(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Caribou

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.60081, 42.64992

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description SHELF FACIES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1940
Year of first production 1941

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner FMC CORP.
  • Type Owner
    Owner STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO.
  • Type Owner
    Owner MONSANTO
  • Type Owner
    Owner KERR-MCGEE
  • Type Owner
    Owner UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION
  • Type Operator
    Owner FMC CORP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

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:

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.