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Rainbow

Past Producer in Siskiyou county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Lead
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106534
MRDS ID X025694
Record type Site
Current site name Rainbow
Related records 10213519

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.64334, 41.77901 (WGS84)
Elevation 975
Relative position 1.5 MI NW HAWKINSVILLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Siskiyou(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Badger Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Yreka(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Shasta(hydrologic unit)

Klamath(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 Siskiyou

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 045N 007W 03 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM EST SE 1/4 NW 1/4. LOCATION EST FROM TOPO.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.64334, 41.77901
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 15.24M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • 90 FT. ADIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B., 1922, REDDING FIELD DIV: SISKIYOU CO. CA.: CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOLOGY, V. 18 P. 733

  • Deposit

    LOGAN, C.A., 1925, SACRAMENTO FIELD DIVISION: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 21, NO. 4, P. 456

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN FREE GOLD REPORTED IN CROSSCUT 90 FT. LONG.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1980 Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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