Critical Minerals Factbook
Deposit

Unnamed (S of Shorty Creek)

Unnamed (S of Shorty Creek) is a rare earth occurrence in Wyoming, recorded in the USGS USMIN rare earth element occurrence database (ver. 4.0, June 2019).

Facts on this page last re-verified Aug 12, 2026 — the oldest verification date among its current claims. How we verify.

Location: Wyoming, United States (43.530, -110.434 approx.)

Commodities: phosphate; rare earth elements

Deposit model: unclassified · upwelling type phosphate deposits

Geology

These samples of phosphorite and phosphate-rich rock contained 500 ppm La, 500 ppm Y, 9 and 4.5 percent P, 1,200 and 1,000 ppm Cr, and 200 and 70 ppm V. (Sutherland and Cola (2016))

Record imported from USGS USMIN ver. 4.0 (June 2019). Developments after that date appear on facility records, not here; see the methodology.

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