Phosphorite

A phosphorite or phosphate rock is a non-detrital sedimentary rock which contains high amounts of phosphate bearing minerals.

Phosphorite Media

• Peloidal phosphorite Phosphoria Formation Simplot Mine Idaho.jpg

  Peloidal phosphorite, Phosphoria Formation, Simplot Mine, Idaho. 4.6 cm wide.

• Fossiliferous peloidal phosphorite, Yunnan Province China.jpg

  Fossiliferous peloidal phosphorite, (4.7 cm across), Yunnan, China.

• Estonian shelly phosphorites.jpg

  Shelly phosphorite from Estonia

• DSCN5766-guano-glantz crop b.jpg

  Guano phosphorite mining in the Chincha Islands of Peru, c. 1860

• Phosphorite Mine Oron Israel 070313.jpg

  Phosphorite mine near Oron, Negev, Israel.