Rocky Mountain confirms phosphate in SE Idaho

Vancouver-Rocky Mountain Resources Corp., a Vancouver industrial metals and minerals exploration and development corporation, has confirmed two high grade phosphate beds, thicker zones of intermediate grade phosphate, and a vanadium-rich bed in the Montpelier mining district of Southeast Idaho’s Bear Lake County. Rocky Mountain recently acquired a significant position in Paris Hills, about two miles west of the small towns of Paris and Bloomington and about 45 miles south of the active Soda Springs phosphate mining district in Caribou County (GM Sept. 8, p. 14). “First, the thickness and grade of the high grade beds are within the ranges expected based on reports by Earth Sciences Inc. in their work from the 1970s,” said Tom DeMull, Rocky Mountain president. “Second and more significant, Rocky Mountain has identified long intervals of intermediate grade phosphate that were not included in Earth Science’s historic resource at Paris.”