Deposit

Table Mountain

Table Mountain 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 (43.517, -110.571 approx.)

Commodities: phosphate; rare earth elements

Deposit model: unclassified · upwelling type phosphate deposits

Geology

This 15 cm (6 in) sample of phosphorite contained 500 ppm La, 500 ppm Y, 12 percent P, 115 ppm U, 1,000 ppm Cr, and 500 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.

Sources

U.S. Geological Survey · published Jun 1, 2019 · retrieved Aug 12, 2026 · archive unavailable: Wayback snapshot 20260427015518 of the ScienceBase item exists but the archive service returned 503 on verification 2026-08-12; recheck on a weekly pass