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Double Rainbow Mine

Past Producer in Lawrence county in South Dakota, United States with commodities Silver, 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. Alteration
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10055534
MRDS ID SD02105
Record type Site
Current site name Double Rainbow Mine
Alternate or previous names Richmond - Sitting Bull, Tiger Tail, Silver Terra, Grand View, Gulch Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.63196, 44.33607 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position .5 MI EAST OF GALENA, SOUTH DAKOTA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lawrence(county)

South Dakota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deadwood South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rapid City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rapid City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Belle Fourche(hydrologic unit)

Belle Fourche(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Black Hills 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 South Dakota Lawrence

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Black Hills 004N 004E 03,04 South Dakota

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Badly Oxidized

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VUGS
    Dip 90

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Upper Mineralized Ore Zone And Basal Quartzite, Two Sets Of Vertical Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1876

Mining district

District name Galena District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Black Hills National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Double Rainbow Mines, Inc.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 7.404HA
    Overall length 396.24M
    Overall width 198.12M

Comments on the workings information

  • WIDTH RUNS EAST - WEST, LENGTH RUNS NORTH - SOUTH, RICHMOND - SITTING BULL CLAIM IS 1400 FT BY 1000 FT. THE DIMENSIONS ABOVE ARE FOR THE DOUBLE RAINBOW PART OF THE AREA MINES AND UNDERLIES PARTS OF THE RICHMOND - SITTING BULL, TIGER TAIL, SILVER TERRA, GRAND VIEW AND GULCH CLAIMS.

Comments on development

  • 28 CLAIMS COVERING 290 AC ; ECON.COM: IN 1930 - 31 , A 150 TON FLOTATION MILL WAS BUILT, BUT WAS DISMANTLED IN 1945 .

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    US BUREAU OF MINES, 1954 , BLACK HILLS MINERAL ATLAS, SOUTH DAKOTA: PART I, BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7688 .

  • Deposit

    US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, US BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, AND SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1975 , MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF SOUTH DAKOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 16 .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1979 Barari, Rachel A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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