A History of Phosphate Mining in Southeastern Idaho By William H. Lee1 . Open-File Report 00-425 . Version 1.0 . ... General view of the pulverizing mill and crude rock storage bins of the Idaho Phosphate Company .....44 26. Overview of the Paris Canyon Mine showing the snowshed over the tramway,
Since the open- ing of the first mine in 1906, 229 million metric tons of marketable phosphate rock have been produced from 70 mines in the four states that comprise the Western Phosphate Field. Of these 70 mines, 49 were underground, 17 were surface, and seven used both methods; however, since 1993, all production has been …
1 Includes data from the commodity chapters published in the Minerals Yearbook as they were completed and released through January 2023.. 2 Production as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production (including consumption by producers). Mine output measured as sold or used by producers is primarily shown in the tables, because …
Phosphate rock was first mined in England in 1847 for use as a fertilizer. It was in 1881 that Captain J. Francis LeBaron, of the Army Corps of Engineers, discovered Florida's treasure in black phosphate pebbles in the Peace River. ... Florida Phosphate Mining History; Company Towns; Timeline of Phosphate Communities; The Phosphate …
The Gay Mine is located on the Fort Hall Reservation. It is one of 31 phosphate ore mines in the Southeast Idaho Phosphate Resource Area. Originally named after Gay Simplot, the daughter of J.R. Simplot, the Gay Mine came into existence in 1946 to supply phosphate ore to the J.R. Simplot Company (Simplot) fertilizer plant in Pocatello.
Background material was gathered and research into the history of phosphate mining in southeastern Idaho was initiated while the author was working for the Conservation Division of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 1972 to 1983.
Phosphate ore is dug up and transported July 16, 2009, from Monsanto Co.'s South Rasmussen Mine site near Soda Springs, Idaho. Two federal agencies have approved a 2.4-mile-long open pit ...
BOISE, Idaho— A federal judge on Friday fully vacated a set of approvals by the Bureau of Land Management authorizing development of the Caldwell Canyon phosphate mine in southeastern Idaho. Phosphate from the mine was slated to be used by Bayer AG — which in 2018 purchased the pesticide giant Monsanto — in …
A history of phosphate mining in southeastern Idaho; A history of phosphate mining in southeastern Idaho. by Lee, W. H., & Geological Survey (2001) State of Idaho Mining …
1908: Waterloo Mine is state's first phosphate mine (underground mine). 1940: Bennington Canyon Mine is state's first phosphate surface mine. 1946: J.R. Simplot develops the Gay Mine on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. 1968: Last underground phosphate mine closes in Idaho. 1985: Coeur d'Alene mining district produces their …
Production. Year: 1975 Description: Phosphate Rock 27.6 % P205 859000 Tonnes Of Ore Per Year Year: 1974 Description: Phosphate Rock 27.8 % P205 1052000 Tonnes Of Ore Per Year Year: 1980 Description: Phosphate Rock 27.1 % P205 590000 Tonnes Of Ore Per Year Year: 1979 Description: Phosphate Rock 27.8 % P205 636000 Tonnes Of …
A history of phosphate mining in southeastern Idaho January 1, 2000 No abstract available. Citation Information. Publication Year: 2000: Title: A history of …
Service, approved an expansion to the largest phosphate rock mine in Idaho. The expansion will allow the operating company to continue mining at the site for about 10 years, after which it will shift mining to a new mine that is under development in the same area. A new phosphate rock mine began operation near Spanish Forks, UT, in July 2020.
Our Commitment to the Southeast Idaho Community. For over 65 years, Bayer's P4 business, which does phosphate mining and phosphorus manufacturing, has been a central part of the Soda Springs community. Today it is a major pillar of the Southeast Idaho economy.
oldest and largest mines in eastern Idaho, producing phosphate ore under various mine operators from 1906 through 1984. The J.R. Simplot Company became the primary operator around 1960. Dur-ing open-pit mining, overburden (waste rock) was removed from the mine pits and placed in overbur-den disposal areas (ODAs).
The history of production of the Western Phosphate Field Since 1907, 30 mines have reported production of phosphate rock in Idaho, 10 mines were strictly underground operations, 15 were open-pit, and five used both mining methods (Fig. 3 …
The Bureau of Land Management is gathering public feedback through Friday on a revised proposal for a phosphate mine in southeast Idaho, after a federal judge halted a previous plan for the mine earlier this year. The BLM initially approved the Caldwell Canyon mine near Soda Springs four years ago, a project proposed by a …
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal land managers have released a final plan for a phosphate mine with five open pits as well as reclamation work in eastern Idaho proposed by Idaho-based J.R. Simplot ...
"The agencies have taken a mine-centric approach and failed to analyze cumulative impacts from past, present and future activities including mining, roads, OHVs and human traffic and other factors fragmenting and degrading habitat, polluting soils and waters in the SE Idaho Phosphate Mining Region, which is part of the Regionally …
HISTORY AND MINING OF MAIDEN ROCK DISTRICT- Hills Rich in Phosphate. Phosphate deposits were discovered in Montana around 1910 and were mined on a small scale as early as 1921. ...
The Conda/Woodall Mountain Mine is one of the oldest and largest mines in eastern Idaho, producing phosphate ore under various mine operators from 1906 through 1984. During open-pit mining, overburden (waste rock) was removed from the mine pits and placed in overburden disposal areas (ODAs). The RI/FS at the Conda/Woodall Mountain Mine …
Discovery of Phosphate. With the passage of the Lode Law of 1866 and the Placer Law of 1870 and the later consolidation into the General Mining Law of 1872, mining claims …
A detailed history of phosphate mining in southeastern Idaho was recently completed by Lee (2001). In addition, a spatially registered description of selected phosphate mines in southeastern Idaho, showing mine pits, waste dumps, tailings and other phosphate-mining-related features, has been prepared (Causey and Moyle, 2001).
Monsanto's weedkiller comes from beneath the soil. The active ingredient in Roundup is glyphosate, which is ultimately derived from elemental phosphorous extracted from phosphate rock buried below ground. Monsanto gets its phosphate from mines in Southeast Idaho near the town of Soda Springs, a small community of about 3,000 …
The discussions include mine (or lease) ownership, history of prospecting and development, actual mining, and mine closure. The collection is in Portable Document Format (PDF) files with a hot-linked table of contents and is indexed for searching for words or sets of words, using the search tool in Acrobat Reader.
Map showing mining-related features in 2001 at selected phosphate mines, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, and Caribou Counties, Idaho (from plate 1) ... in the core of the southeastern Idaho phosphate resource area. ... of mine pits, 440 hc (1100 ac) of backfilled mine pits, 1,600 hc (3,800 ac) of waste rock dumps, 31 hc (75 ac) of ore …
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The unique geologic history of southern Idaho makes it one of the largest sources of phosphate ore in the United States, and phosphate mining has been an …
Southeast Idaho is a major phosphate-producing region and phosphate mining has been an important industry here since the turn of the 20th century. ... world-wide demand for metals increased and mining activity boomed. Phosphate rock suitable for agricultural fertilizer and industry was abundant in the Soda Springs area. ... History …
The rock formed 260 million years ago in a large marine basin that extended from this part of Idaho into adjacent parts of Utah and Wyoming. One unit of the Phosphoria Forma …
