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Hookers Prairie Mine, Central Florida Phosphate District, Polk Co., Florida, USA

REF:Deposit:: FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP, POLK COUNTY, FLA., 1971
Deposit:: W.R. GRACE & COMPANY, ANNUAL REPORT, 1977
Deposit:: R.W. HOPPE, PHOSPHATES ARE VITAL TO AGRICULTURE AND FLORIDA MINES FOR ONE-THIRD THE WORLD, IN E/M
Commodities (Major) - Phosphorus-Phosphates
Development Status: Producer
Deposit Model: 244: Phosphate, warm current type
Host Rock Unit: Bone Valley, Hawthorn: Underlies Bone Valley Unconformably Yellow-Tan Dolostone
Structure: Sand, Clay, Dolomite
Host Rock: Phosphorite





Map Reference: 27°46'52"N , 81°57'0"W

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    var: Collophane'


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