Critical Minerals Factbook
Deposit

Granite Creek

Granite 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 (43.463, -110.504 approx.)

Commodities: phosphate; rare earth elements

Deposit model: unclassified · upwelling type phosphate deposits

Geology

Samples 80 and 81 came from 6 to 10 cm (2.4 to 3.9 in) samples of phosphorite. They contained 100 and 500 ppm La, 1,000 and 700 ppm Y, 12 percent P, 500 and 700 ppm Cr, and 300 and 100 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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