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Check access before you go. Most sites listed here are old mines, quarries or prospects, and many are on private land or active mining claims. Get the landowner's permission, check the rules of the agency that manages any public land, and never enter mine workings. Locations are approximate.

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Deep Creek (Prospect)North Columbia Deposit (Prospect)North Columbia County #2 (Prospect)North Lake City (Prospect)Columbia County # 1 Deposit (Prospect)
Past ProducerProducerProspectOccurrenceStatus unknown
5 paw pins, one per site. Hover or tap a pin for the site name. 1 site(s) with USGS coordinates outside the outline are not pinned. County outline: US Census Bureau cartographic boundary file (2023). Locations approximate.

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Columbia County # 1 Deposit

We picked it because its USGS record mentions 2 gem or collectible minerals (Quartz, Fluorite) and 2 of our card minerals overall. That ties with 5 other site(s), so we broke the tie by mine status (past producers first), then USGS record quality, then name. USGS lists it as prospect for Phosphorus-Phosphates. Minerals mentioned: Quartz, Fluorite. Approx. location 30.108, -82.500. USGS record.

Ask first: a USGS record doesn’t mean you can visit. Find out who owns the land and get permission before collecting.

Field cards: what kind of sites?

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Prospect

Explored or test-dug, with no recorded production.

Status terms come from USGS MRDS records.

Mineral cards

Counts are sites whose USGS record mentions the mineral or commodity. Hardness from Mindat.

Minerals recorded here

No individual minerals are listed in these records.

Commodities

Phosphorus-Phosphates 6

Sites

SiteCommodityMinerals recordedStatusApprox. location
North Lake CityPhosphorus-Phosphates—Prospect30.300, -82.500
Osceola National ForestPhosphorus-Phosphates—Prospect30.317, -82.451
North Columbia County #2Phosphorus-Phosphates—Prospect30.491, -82.508
North Columbia DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates—Prospect30.497, -82.611
Deep CreekPhosphorus-Phosphates—Prospect30.334, -82.641
Columbia County # 1 DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates—Prospect30.108, -82.500

Fossil collections

The Paleobiology Database lists 17 fossil collection records in Columbia County. These are research records, not public dig sites.

Nearby counties

Baker County · Hamilton County · Bradford County · Clay County · Nassau County

Florida mineral guides

Back to all Florida counties.

Related articles

How we built this page: we counted named sites in the USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) for this area, left out sand, gravel, crushed stone, clay pits and unnamed sites, grouped them by Census county, and linked every site to its USGS record. We did not visit these sites, and MRDS does not tell you who owns the land or whether collecting is allowed.

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS). USGS ceased systematic updates to MRDS around 2011, so status and details may be out of date. Each site links to its USGS record.

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