Critical Minerals Factbook
Deposit

Crystal Creek Canyon

Crystal Creek Canyon 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 (43.559, -110.406 approx.)

Commodities: phosphate; rare earth elements

Deposit model: unclassified · upwelling type phosphate deposits

Geology

...samples with up to 700 ppm lanthanum, 300 ppm yttrium, and 31.5 percent P2O5 from the Phosphoria Formation in the Crystal Creek Canyon area. (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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