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Rainbow and Corp Groups

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Vanadium, Uranium
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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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044322
MRDS ID M231720
Record type Site
Current site name Rainbow and Corp Groups
Alternate or previous names Air Anomaly No. 3, Valley Viewrainbow Claims Nos. 1-20
Related records 10271393

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.8837, 38.93076 (WGS84)
Elevation 2633
Relative position 4.4 MILES E-NE OF JET SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jet Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012N 045E 01 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 3 MILES S45W FROM NORTHUMBERLAND MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor Silicification

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES RANGE FROM 0.047 TO 0.388 % U308.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.8837, 38.93076
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Radioactivity Terminates At A Fault 17 Ft Deep

Ore body information

  • Strike E-W
    Dip 45 S
    Thickness 1.52M
    Depth to bottom 5.18M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along Fractures And Bedding Plane Slips.

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE SHALE IS BLACK, HIGHLY FRACTURED, AND SILICIFIED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Northumberland District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Brinkley, D. E.
    Home office 625 Hunter Lake Drive, Reno, 89509.
    First year 1979

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 20 FT SHAFT AND SEVERAL PITS.

Comments on development

  • 19 UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN RAINBOW AND CORD GROUPS WERE LOCATED IN 1955. WORKED SINCE 1955

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 81, P. 86-87

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P.,1981, FIELD EXAMINATION OCT 20, 1981.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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