Critical Minerals Factbook
Deposit

Crystal Creek

Crystal 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 (43.563, -110.421 approx.)

Commodities: phosphate; rare earth elements

Deposit model: unclassified · upwelling type phosphate deposits

Geology

Phosphorite samples #15 and #17 contained 500 and 1,000 ppm La, 700 and 1,000 ppm Y, 12 and 9 percent P, 1,500 ppm Cr, 500 and 70 ppm V, up to 3 ppm Ag, and 100 ppm Zn. Sample #16 was collected from black shale in the Phosphoria Formation and contained 150 ppm La, 200 ppm Y, 5 ppm Ag, 100 ppm Cr, and 700 ppm Zn. (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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