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Rainbow

Occurrence in Sweet Grass county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010536
MRDS ID D004299
Record type Site
Current site name Rainbow
Alternate or previous names Simon's Map Loc. No. 131

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.1308, 45.26936 (WGS84)
Elevation 2896
Relative position 2.5 MILES SSE OF MT. DOUGLAS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweet Grass(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Douglas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gardiner(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Custer Gallatin National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Sweet Grass

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 006S 013E Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ON WEST SLOPE SOUTH OF NW LAKE OF RAINBOW LAKES.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.1308, 45.26936
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Local Faulting And Precambrian And Tertiary Intrusions

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SIMONS, F, 1979, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE BEARTOOTH PRIM. AREA AND VICINITY, MONT. AND WYO., USGS BULL 1391-F, P. 97

  • Deposit

    1979 GEOLMAP SIMONS, BULL 1391-

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1980 Doyle, Brien (Wells, John) U.S. Geological Survey

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