Southern Wasatch Range

Site Name

Primary: Southern Wasatch Range
Secondary: Little Diamond Creek
Secondary: Southern Wasatch Range Combined

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Commodity

Primary: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Tertiary: Water, Free
Tertiary: Uranium

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Location

State: Utah
County: Utah
District: Western Phosphate

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Land Status

Land ownership: Mixed
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.

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Holdings

Type: Federal Lease

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Workings

Type: Surface

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Ownership

Owner Name: U.S. Government
Percent: 95.00
Home Office: Dist Of Columbia
Info Year: 1980

Owner Name: John M. U'Ren
Percent: 5.00
Home Office: Utah
Info Year: 1980

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Production

Year: 1953
Time Period: 1941-1953
Description: Furnace-Grade Intermittent Prod. 1941-53 16225 Short Tons

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Open Pit
Milling Method: Washing
Year First Production: 1941
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

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Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Middle Rocky Mountains

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Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

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Orebody

Not available

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Structure

Not available

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Alterations

Not available

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Rocks

Not available

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Analytical Data

Not available

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Materials

Unknown: Limonite
Unknown: Pyrite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Sphene
Unknown: Tourmaline
Unknown: Zircon
Unknown: Apatite
Unknown: Calcite
Unknown: Dolomite
Unknown: Feldspar
Unknown: Fluorite
Unknown: Gypsum
Unknown: Illite
Unknown: Kaolinite
Unknown: Montmorillonite

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Comments

Comment (Reserve-Resource): RESERVE RECORD 1 CONSISTS OF RESOURCES WITHIN 2500 FEET OF VERTICAL DEPTH OVER 1300 FEET OF OUTCROP IN THE VICINITY OF LITTLE DIAMOND CREEK.

Comment (Production): PRODUCTS A, B, C, D, AND E, WHERE PROPOSED IN THIS EVALUATION, ARE ACID GRADE PRODUCTS, AND PRODUCTS F, G, H, I, AND J, ARE FURNACE GRADE PRODUCTS. NOT ALL OF THESE PRODUCTS ARE USED IN THIS EVALUATION.

Comment (Economic Factors): Mining and beneficiation costs for each proposed operation were obtained by applying one of 34 basic mine models and 5 basic mill models developed for evaluating Utah and Wyoming phosphate deposits. Site-specific cost adjustments were made for land acquisition, infrastructure, unusual haulage distance to mill, the presence of multiple beds requiring mining of waste, and mill feed grade and recovery. All costs are in January 1980 dollars. The schedule of costs is based on the assumption that each proposed operation will be independently developed as soon as technically possible after the official January 1979 base date for the current phosphate study. Thus, land acquisition, exploration, and infrastructure capital costs are assumed to begin in 1979. Mine and mill capital costs include a contingency allowance of 15 percent of all other capital costs except working capital. Mine and mill working capital is estimated at 60 days of operating cost. A Bureau costing manual (bibliography data set ref. I030) was used to estimate surface and underground mine exploration, development, reclamation, plant, and equipment capital costs; underground mine operating costs; capital and operating costs for the calcining-hydration mill (if used) and for the flotation sections of other mills; costs of transporting products from proposed mills to existing final processing plants; and access road construction cost. Surface mine operating costs are size-scaled, using scaling factors from Bennett (bibliography data set ref. I001), and others (U.S. office of audit and investigation) for Idaho phosphate mines in 1976 and 1977. Infrastructure capital costs assigned to each proposed mine consist of only those railroad, transmission line, and access road costs which are needed for development of each mine. Railroad cost is estimated by the Richardson rapid construction cost estimating system (bibliography data set ref. I020). Transmission line cost is estimated from typical industry costs (A.W. Watts, 1980, Water and Power Resources Services, personal communication). Access road costs are estimated by using the capital and operating cost estimating handbook (bibliography data set ref. I030). Land acquisition costs are based on typical competitive bids for leases in southeastern Idaho, adjusted for specific deposit grade and thickness. Lease rentals and royalties are based on current rates for federal leases in the western phosphate field. Capital and operating costs for all mills, excepting the calcination-hydration mill (if used) and flotation sections of other mills, are size-scaled, using scaling factors from Bennett (bibliography data set ref. I001), from costs given for a sizing and calcining mill described by de Voto, et al. (bibliography data set ref. R030), vol. 2, appendix d. Site-specific cost adjustments for mill feed grade and recovery are made, using relative cost factors calculated from average cost and recovery curves for altered and unaltered ores (bibliography data set ref. I010).

Comment (Ownership): PHOSPHATE LANDS MAY BE LEASED FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. CURRENTLY, THERE IS ONE ACTIVE LEASE WITHIN THE AREA INCLUDED IN THIS DEPOSIT. THE PERCENT OWNERSHIP SHOWN IS AN APPROXIMATION BASED ON TOTAL SURFACE EXPOSURE.

Comment (Workings): ABBREVIATION FOR MINING DISTRICT: WEST. PHOSPHATE = WESTERN PHOSPHATE FIELD.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): OTHER NAME: LITTLE DIAMOND CREEK. NOT INCLUDED IN EVALUATION. PROPERTY HAS BEEN SPLIT INTO TWO SEPARATE DEPOSITS FOR SUPPLY ANALYSIS WITH SEQ NOS. 0490490291 AND 0490490292.

Comment (Deposit): THIS MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM EVALUATION WAS DONE AS PART OF A 1980 STUDY OF UTAH AND WYOMING PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS BY THE INTERMOUNTAIN FIELD OPERATIONS CENTER, DENVER, COLORADO. THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE DEPOSIT EXTENDS INTO WASATCH COUNTY. DOMAIN - ABOUT 25 PERCENT OF THE OUTCROP AREA IS PRIVATE LAND WITH THE REMAINING AREA SPLIT FAIRLY EQUALLY BE- TWEEN NATIONAL FOREST AND POTENTIALLY UNAVAILABLE ROAD- LESS AREA REVIEW AND EVALUATION (RARE II) LANDS.

Comment (Geology): THE PHOSPHORIA FORMATION IS SUBDIVIDED INTO FIVE MEMBERS BY MCKELVEY (BIBLIOGRAPHY REF. L010), TWO OF WHICH (THE MEADE PEAK AND RETORT MEMBERS) CONTAIN SIGNIFICANT PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS. IN UTAH AND SOUTHWESTERN WYOMING, THE MEADE PEAK MEMBER, AND IN CENTRAL AND NORTHWESTERN WYOMING, THE RETORT MEMBER CONTAIN THE DEPOSITS OF POTENTIAL INTEREST. THE PARK CITY FORMATION OF UTAH AND CENTRAL WYOMING AND THE SHEDHORN SANDSTONE OF NORTHWESTERN WYOMING ARE STRATIGRAPHIC EQUIVALENTS OF AND INTERTONGUE WITH THE PHOSPHORIA FORMATION. THE PHOSPHORIA FORMATION AND EQUIVALENT FORMATIONS ARE UNDERLAIN BY EITHER THE TENSLEEP SANDSTONE, WEBER QUARTZITE, WELLS FORMATION, OR DIAMOND CREEK SANDSTONE AND ARE OVERLAIN BY EITHER THE WOODSIDE OR DINWOODY FORMATIONS.

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References

Reference (Ownership): OWNERSHIP AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT, WASATCH - F: U.S.

Reference (Ownership): BUR. LAND MANAGEMENT MAP, 1:250,000 SCALE, 1 SHEET.

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Reference (Production): BENEFICIATION STUDIES ON A HIMALAYAN LEAN PHOSPHATE

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Reference (Geology): 2-DEGREE TOPOGRAPHIC MAP: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY,

Reference (Geology): U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1962, PRICE, UTAH, 1-DEGREE BY

Reference (Reserve-Resource): PHOSPHATE RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS OF

Reference (Reserve-Resource): DE VOTO, R. H., AND STEVENS, D. N., ED., 1979, URANIFEROUS

Reference (Ownership): FEDERAL LAND STATUS IN THE OVERTHRUST BELT OF IDAHO,

Reference (Ownership): SCHUMACHER, O. L., PENSE, R. A., AND DAVIS, R. B., 1979,

Reference (Geology): TAIN ASSOC. OF GEOL. 15TH ANN. FIELD CONF., P. 99-102.

Reference (Geology): PHOSPHORITES OF THE PHOSPHORIA FORMATION, IN INTERMOUN-

Reference (Geology): 3 PLATES.

Reference (Geology): GULBRANDSEN, R. A., 1967, SOME COMPOSITIONAL FEATURES OF

Reference (Geology): U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 313-A, P. 1-47,

Reference (Geology): SHEDHORN FORMATIONS IN THE WESTERN PHOSPHATE FIELD:

Reference (Geology): MCKELVEY, V. E., 1959, THE PHOSPHORIA, PARK CITY, AND

Reference (Production): ENG., JAN. 1978, P. 37-40.

Reference (Production): ADVANCES IN BENEFICIATION OF WESTERN PHOSPHATES: MIN.

Reference (Geology): 306, 40 P.

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Reference (Geology): M. A., 1953, STRATIGRAPHIC SECTIONS OF THE PHOSPHORIA

Reference (Geology): CHENEY, T. M., SMART, R. A., WARING, R. G., AND WARNER,

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Reference (Geology): CLINE, IN INTERMOUNTAIN ASSOC. OF PETROLEUM GEOL. 10TH

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Reference (Deposit): CONF., 287 P., 3 PLATES.

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