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Rainbow Group

Occurrence in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047390
MRDS ID M242680
Record type Site
Current site name Rainbow Group
Alternate or previous names Includes New Yorker Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.55067, 40.3374 (WGS84)
Elevation 1875

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Needle Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fish Creek Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 029N 039E 35 SE OF SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 3 MILES UP BUSHEE CREEK CANYON FROM THE PEARCE RANCH AND ADJACENT TO THE MERCURY KING (NORTH FORK) GROUP . INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE CONTAINING 28 LB HG PER TON WAS REPORTED, BUT NOT SEEN BY BAILEY ET AL.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Altered Sandstone, Shale, And Tuff.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 177
USGS model code 27a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Koipato Group
    Rock description Koipato Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.55067, 40.3374
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1954
Discoverer C.H. Chester And Inez Butler

Mining district

District name Mount Tobin District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Mercury Corp. Of America
    First year 1961
  • Type Owner
    Owner Metals Exploration Corp.
    First year 1961

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 39.62M

Comments on the workings information

  • AT LEAST 2 ADITS, THE LONGEST OF WHICH IS MORE THAN 130 FT LONG; A SHALLOW SHAFT, 2 SMALL OPEN PITS AND SEVERAL TRENCHES AND CUTS.

Comments on development

  • THE RAINBOW GROUP OF 9 CLAIMS LOCATED BY CHESTER AND BUTLER IN 1954 WERE PROBABLY A RESTAKING OF GROUND FORMERLY HELD UNDER ANOTHER NAME. IN 1956-1961 EXPLORATION WAS DONE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE MERCURY CORP. OF AMERICA FOR METALS EXPLORATION CORP. HEADED BY GEORGE H. SALMON. ALTHOUGH THE DISCOVERY OF ORE OF GOOD GRADE WAS REPORTED, AND PLANS WERE MADE TO HAUL IT TO A RECOVERY PLANT IN WINNEMUCCA, IT IS NOT KNOWN IF ANY ORE WAS HAULED FROM HERE, AND NO PRODUCTION WAS EVER RECORDED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., RYTUBA, J.J. AND JONES, R.B., 1984, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON HG DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, NBMG BULL 89, PL. I.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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