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Roosevelt and Rainbow Group of Mines

Past Producer in Riverside county in California, 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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10099487
MRDS ID TC38829
Record type Site
Current site name Roosevelt and Rainbow Group of Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.8133, 33.48478 (WGS84)
Relative position 8 MILES SW OF RIPLEY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Riverside(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Thumb Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Trigo Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salton Sea(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imperial Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

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

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Riverside

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 08S 021E 17,18 California

Comments on the location information

  • LA ENCARNACION IS THE NEAREST LOCALITY.
  • EAST SLOPE OF MULE MOUNTAINS. LAT-LONG FROM SHARED EDGE OF SECTION 17 AND 18.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.8133, 33.48478
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike E-W
    Dip 50N, 50S
    Width 2.44M

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEINS OCCUR IN THE STOCK OF PARAMO DE FRONTINO.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hodges

Comments on the workings information

  • ROOSEVELT: SHAFT SUNK 96 FT, ANOTHER IS SUNK 100 FT WEST TO A DEPTH OF 135 FT. RAINBOW: TUNNEL DRIVEN 130 FT.

Comments on development

  • ROOSEVELT ASSAY: $8 AU/TON-$100 AU/TON RAINBOW ASSAY: $12 AU/TON.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SAMPSON, R.J., AND TUCKER, W.B., 1945, MINERAL RESOURCES OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY; CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 41, NO. 3, P

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO PARALLEL VEINS, ROOSEVELT AND RAINBOW.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1993 Unkefer, Jason U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative California resources

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