Wyoming Phosphates

WSGS phosphate samples

Site_Name | Twin Creek Anticline
Sample_Number | 20150622JC-B
Weight_percent_P2O5 | 10.25
Phosphate_Mineral | Fluorapatite
Lithology | Phosphate rock

Site_Name | Twin Creek Anticline
Sample_Number | 20150622JC-C
Weight_percent_P2O5 | 23.3
Phosphate_Mineral | Fluorapatite
Lithology | Phosphate rock

Site_Name | Red Canyon
Sample_Number | 20150623JC-B
Weight_percent_P2O5 | 21.6
Phosphate_Mineral | Fluorapatite
Lithology | Phosphate rock

Site_Name | Red Canyon
Sample_Number | 20150623JC-C

Site_Name | Eagle Ridge
Sample_Number | 20150624JC-A
Phosphate_Mineral | Taranakite
Lithology | Tufa(?)

Site_Name | Eagle Ridge
Sample_Number | 20150624JC-C
Lithology | Limestone

Site_Name | Muddy Creek
Sample_Number | 20150713JC-A.1

Site_Name | North Fork of Pine Creek
Sample_Number | 20150714JC-A

Site_Name | North Fork of Pine Creek
Sample_Number | 20150714JC-B
Lithology | Sandstone to siltstone

Site_Name | North Fork of Pine Creek
Lithology | Phosphatic packstone and fossileferous mudstone

Site_Name | Middle Fork of Pine Creek
Sample_Number | 20150714JC-E

Site_Name | Poison Creek
Sample_Number | 20150715JC-A

Site_Name | Shafer Creek

Site_Name | Shafer Creek
Sample_Number | 20150715JC-D

Site_Name | Poison Creek
Sample_Number | 20150715JC-E

Site_Name | Hoback

Site_Name | Hoback
Phosphate_Mineral | None
Lithology | Mudstone

Site_Name | Waterdog Lake
Sample_Number | 20150716JC-E

Site_Name | Hoback Campground

Site_Name | Arctic Mine
Sample_Number | 20121214WSGS-A
Phosphate_Mineral | <Null>
Lithology | Intrusive breccia

Site_Name | Cedar Mountain
Sample_Number | WGS-0684-X
Phosphate_Mineral | Minyulite
Lithology | Sandstone

Phosphate mine sites

York Canyon
MineName | York Canyon

Leefe North
MineName | Leefe North

Leefe South
MineName | Leefe South

Cokeville
MineName | Cokeville

South Mountain Pit and Mine
MineName | South Mountain Pit and Mine

Greater than 6 ft thick

Twin Creek Core 1
SiteName | Twin Creek Core 1
Weight_Percent_P2O5 | 25.1
Thickness_ft | 6
Citation | King and Schumacher, 1949

Cottonwood Creek - Corral Creek Trail
SiteName | Cottonwood Creek - Corral Creek Trail
Weight_Percent_P2O5 | 23
Thickness_ft | 6.7
Citation | McKelvey, 1946

Layland Canyon
SiteName | Layland Canyon
Weight_Percent_P2O5 | 30.507353
Thickness_ft | 6.8
Citation | McKelvey and others, 1953

Leefe North
SiteName | Leefe North
Weight_Percent_P2O5 | 31.907143
Thickness_ft | 7
Citation | McKelvey and others, 1953

Leefe South
SiteName | Leefe South
Thickness_ft | 9.2
Citation | McKelvey and others, 1953

Dry Fork - Wolf Creek
SiteName | Dry Fork - Wolf Creek
Citation | Benham, 1984

Teton Pass Mountains
SiteName | Teton Pass Mountains
Citation | Gere and others, 1966

3 - 6 ft thick

SiteName | <Null>
Citation | Condit, 1924

SiteName | <Null>
Thickness_ft | 4
Citation | Condit, 1924

Usher Creek
SiteName | Usher Creek

Macfie Core 1
SiteName | Macfie Core 1
Citation | King and Schumacher, 1949

North Fork Popo Agie River
SiteName | North Fork Popo Agie River

Francis Canyon
SiteName | Francis Canyon
Citation | Mansfield, 1927

York Canyon
SiteName | York Canyon
Citation | Mansfield, 1927

Jackson Canyon
SiteName | Jackson Canyon
Citation | Mansfield, 1927

South Cottonwood Creek - Sheep Creek divide
SiteName | South Cottonwood Creek - Sheep Creek divide
Citation | McKelvey, 1946

Coal Canyon
SiteName | Coal Canyon

North Fork of Pine Creek
SiteName | North Fork of Pine Creek

Middle Fork of Pine Creek
SiteName | Middle Fork of Pine Creek

Gros Ventre Slide
SiteName | Gros Ventre Slide
Citation | Sheldon and others, 1953

Flat Creek
SiteName | Flat Creek
Citation | Sheldon and others, 1953

Hoback
SiteName | Hoback
Citation | Sheldon and others, 1953

Poison Creek
SiteName | Poison Creek

Raymond Canyon
SiteName | Raymond Canyon

Cokeville
SiteName | Cokeville

Fontenelle Creek
SiteName | Fontenelle Creek

Basin Creek
SiteName | Basin Creek

Wheat Creek
SiteName | Wheat Creek

Talbot Creek
SiteName | Talbot Creek
Citation | Gere and others, 1966

Game Creek
SiteName | Game Creek
Citation | Gere and others, 1966

West Gros Ventre Butte
SiteName | West Gros Ventre Butte

East Darby Creek
SiteName | East Darby Creek

Mosquito Creek
SiteName | Mosquito Creek

Sorensen Creek
SiteName | Sorensen Creek

Crooked Creek
SiteName | Crooked Creek

Less than 3 ft thick

Beaver Creek
SiteName | Beaver Creek

South Fork Little Wind River
SiteName | South Fork Little Wind River

Dry Creek
SiteName | Dry Creek

Afton Creek
SiteName | Afton Creek
Citation | Schultz, 1914

Swift Creek area
SiteName | Swift Creek area

McDougal Pass
SiteName | McDougal Pass
Citation | Kivi, 1940

Willow Creek
SiteName | Willow Creek

Dry Canyon
SiteName | Dry Canyon

South Fork North Piney Creek area
SiteName | South Fork North Piney Creek area
Citation | Kivi, 1940

Citation | Gardener, 1944

Citation | Kivi, 1940

Togwate
SiteName | Togwate

Burroughs Creek
SiteName | Burroughs Creek

Dinwoody Lakes
SiteName | Dinwoody Lakes

Tosi Creek
SiteName | Tosi Creek

Buck Creek
SiteName | Buck Creek
Weight_Percent_P2O5 | 29

South Fork of Gypsum Creek
SiteName | South Fork of Gypsum Creek

Bartlett Creek
SiteName | Bartlett Creek

Bull Lake
SiteName | Bull Lake

Conant Creek
SiteName | Conant Creek

Red Creek
SiteName | Red Creek
Citation | Cheney and others, 1954

Forellen Peak
SiteName | Forellen Peak
Citation | Cheney and others, 1954

Hungry Creek
SiteName | Hungry Creek
Citation | Cheney and others, 1954

Crystal Creek
SiteName | Crystal Creek
Weight_Percent_P2O5 | 25

Teton Pass West
SiteName | Teton Pass West

Steer Creek
SiteName | Steer Creek

Cumberland
SiteName | Cumberland

Middle Piney Lakes
SiteName | Middle Piney Lakes

Deadline Ridge
SiteName | Deadline Ridge

West Branch of Hams Fork Cree
SiteName | West Branch of Hams Fork Cree

South Mountain Pit and Mine
SiteName | South Mountain Pit and Mine

Smoker Hollow Peak area
SiteName | Smoker Hollow Peak area
Citation | Benham, 1984

Green Knoll area
SiteName | Green Knoll area
Citation | Benham, 1984

Hoback
SiteName | Hoback

Burnt Timber Canyon
SiteName | Burnt Timber Canyon

South Fall Creek
SiteName | South Fall Creek

South Fork Elk Creek
SiteName | South Fork Elk Creek

Cache Creek
SiteName | Cache Creek

East Gros Ventre Butte
SiteName | East Gros Ventre Butte

Snow King Mountain
SiteName | Snow King Mountain

Survey Peak
SiteName | Survey Peak

Jackson Lake
SiteName | Jackson Lake

Igneous Apatite

Steamboat Mountain
SiteName | Steamboat Mountain
PLSS | <Null>
Latitude | 41.9669
Citiation | Kemp and Knight, 1903
Weight_percent_P2O5 | <Null>

Deposit #6
SiteName | Deposit #6
Latitude | 41.639
Citiation | Diemer, 1941
Weight_percent_P2O5 | <Null>

Taylor Deposit
SiteName | Taylor Deposit
Latitude | 41.7456
Citiation | Diemer, 1941

Deposit #1
SiteName | Deposit #1
Citiation | Diemer, 1941

Phosphoria Formation and related units
This data set was updated in 2013 by the WSGS. Polygons were merged, description information was completed, and geologic units were converted to representations to retain unit colors.The geologic map was digitized by Green, G.N., and Drouillard, P.H., 1994, from original scribe sheets used to prepare the published 1:500,000-scale Geologic Map of Wyoming (Love and Christiansen, 1985). Stable base contact prints of the scribe sheets were scanned on a Tektronix 4991 digital scanner. The scanner automatically converts the scanned image to an ASCII vector format. These vectors were transferred to a VAX minicomputer, where they were loaded into Arc/Info. The dataset includes both linear and polygon features, with attributes derived from the original 1985 map. Original images (Map, Legend, and Sources): data set available at WSGS web site: http://www.wsgs.uwyo.edu/; or WyGISC GeoLibrary : DATA INFORMATION:GEOLOGIC SYMBOLOGY (FGDCGeoAge font used for labeling Special Characters in SYMBOL field):Mz = MesozoicPz = PaleozoicK = Cretaceous^ = TriassicIP = Pennsylvanian_ = Cambrian< = ProterozoicY = Middle ProterozoicX = Early ProterozoicW = Late ArcheanV = Middle ArcheanU = Early ArcheanFOOTNOTES (fn):1. Query indicates uncertainty of position of top of unit within the Pleistocene.2. Age of upper parts of uppermost Miocene units is problematic. These parts have historically been assigned to the Pliocene. Successive reductions in radiometric age of the top of the Miocene in Europe to 7 Ma (Lambert, 1971) and to 5 Ma (Berggren, 1972) place a Pliocene age in question, although the top beds of the formations have not been dated.3. Karlstrom and others (1983).4. Divis (1976).5. Houston and others (1968).6. Snyder (1980).7. McCallum (1968).

Phosphoria, Wells, and Amsden Formations (TB), Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Quadrant Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (Y), or Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Tensleep Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (N)
FID | 0
Symbol_Ori | P&Ma
Unit_Name | Phosphoria, Wells, and Amsden Formations (TB), Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Quadrant Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (Y), or Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Tensleep Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (N)
Unit_Descr | Phosphoria Formation and related rocks-thrust belt-Upper part is dark- to light-gray chert and shale with black shale and phosphorite at top; lower part is black shale, phosphorite, and cherty dolomite; northern Yellowstone area-Brown sandstone and dolom
Unit_Age | Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Mississippian-Late Pennsylvanian(?) Permian
Symbol | P*Ma
RuleID_1 | 174

Phosphoria, Wells, and Amsden Formations (TB), Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Quadrant Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (Y), or Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Tensleep Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (N)
FID | 1
Symbol_Ori | P&Ma
Unit_Name | Phosphoria, Wells, and Amsden Formations (TB), Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Quadrant Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (Y), or Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Tensleep Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (N)
Unit_Descr | Phosphoria Formation and related rocks-thrust belt-Upper part is dark- to light-gray chert and shale with black shale and phosphorite at top; lower part is black shale, phosphorite, and cherty dolomite; northern Yellowstone area-Brown sandstone and dolom
Unit_Age | Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Mississippian-Late Pennsylvanian(?) Permian
Symbol | P*Ma
RuleID_1 | 174

Phosphoria, Wells, and Amsden Formations (TB), Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Quadrant Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (Y), or Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Tensleep Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (N)
FID | 2
Symbol_Ori | P&Ma
Unit_Name | Phosphoria, Wells, and Amsden Formations (TB), Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Quadrant Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (Y), or Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Tensleep Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (N)
Unit_Descr | Phosphoria Formation and related rocks-thrust belt-Upper part is dark- to light-gray chert and shale with black shale and phosphorite at top; lower part is black shale, phosphorite, and cherty dolomite; northern Yellowstone area-Brown sandstone and dolom
Unit_Age | Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Mississippian-Late Pennsylvanian(?) Permian
Symbol | P*Ma
RuleID_1 | 174

Phosphoria Formation and related rocks
Symbol_Ori | Pp
Unit_Name | Phosphoria Formation and related rocks
Unit_Descr | Thrust belt-Upper part is dark- to light-gray chert and shale with black shale and phosphorite at top; lower part is black shale, phosphorite, and cherty dolomite; north Wyoming-Brown sandstone and dolomite, cherty phosphatic and glauconitic dolomite, ph
Unit_Age | Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian
Symbol | Pp