Critical Minerals Factbook
Deposit

Bear Cabin Creek

Bear Cabin 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 (43.428, -110.251 approx.)

Commodities: phosphate; rare earth elements

Deposit model: unclassified · upwelling type phosphate deposits

Geology

...this sample of phosphorite that contained 500 ppm La, 700 ppm Y, 12 percent P, 700 ppm Cr, and 300 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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