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Rainbow

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10054702
MRDS ID OR07798
Record type Site
Current site name Rainbow
Alternate or previous names This Placer Is Overlapped By Merle Brown's Ormc 65343 Golden Glow, 4 Lode Claim. Ormc 84610 Millsite Is Closed.
Related records 10177307, 10128341

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.91856, 44.38346 (WGS84)
Elevation 1116

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

John Day(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

John Day(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
14S 32E 06 NE OF SW Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.91856, 44.38346
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • TERTIARY RATTLESNAKE FM FANGLOMERATE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Canyon

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Glaefke, Leonard 'Slim'

Comments on the workings information

  • 20 FT OF TIMBER SETS AGAINST BUT NOT INTO THE BANK. CAMM-TEX DID SOME TESTING AND DRILLING IN 1988-89.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROWN, C. E., THAYER, T. P., 1966, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE CANYON CITY QUADRANGLE, NE OR: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, MISC. INVEST. MAP I-447.

  • Deposit

    OR DEPT. GEOL. MIN. IND., 1941, OR METAL MINES HANDBOOK: BULLETIN NO. 14-B, CANYON AREA, PAGE 17-39.

  • Deposit

    SWARTLEY, A. M., 1914, ORE DEPOSITS OF NE OR: OR BUREAU MINES AND GEOL., VOLUMN 1, NUMBER 8, CANYON AREA, PAGE 200-209.

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1901, THE GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OR: 22ND ANNUAL-REPORT, U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PART 2, PAGE 551-776.

  • Other Database

    BLM ORMC 84611

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OLD MARYSVILLE PLACER WITH 50 FT BENCH LEFT BY HYDRAULIC MINING IN 1880'S.
Deposit OCCUPANCY TRESPASS WITH TRAILER

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 09-JAN-1990 Allen, Garwood Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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