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Windsor Minerals Mines: Rainbow and Black Bear

Past Producer in Windsor county in Vermont, United States with commodity Talc-Soapstone
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081671
MRDS ID W033948
Record type Site
Current site name Windsor Minerals Mines: Rainbow and Black Bear
Alternate or previous names Windsor Minerals Mines, Site Includes the Rainbow, Black Bear and An Unnamed Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -72.66263, 43.37969 (WGS84)
Elevation 436
Relative position 0.8 MILES WSW OF THE JCT. OF RTS. 131 AND 103 PROCTORSVILLE, VT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Windsor(county)

Vermont(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ludlow(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Claremont(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Glens Falls(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Black River-Connecticut River(hydrologic unit)

Upper Connecticut(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Vermont Windsor

Comments on the location information

  • THE BLACK BEAR MINE IS 500 FEET SOUTH OF THE RAINBOW AND THE UNNAMED MINE IS 2000 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST.
  • Location Given Is For the Active Rainbow Mine.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Steatite Ore
Talc Ore
Serpentine Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Phyllite
    Rock unit name Missisquoi Formation
    Rock description Missisquoi Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -72.66263, 43.37969
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PODS AND LENSES

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE ULTRAMAFIC BODIES ARE ENCLOSED BY THE PHYLLITES OF THE MISSISQUOI FORMATION.
  • The Ultramafic Bodies Are Enclosed By the Phyllites of the Missisquoi Formation.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1974

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Windsor Minerals, Inc.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Windsor Minerals, Inc.
    Home office West Windsor, Vt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 4.452HA

Comments on the workings information

  • THE RAINBOW PIT IS 120 FEET DEEP. THE AREA GIVEN INCLUDES BOTH THE RAINBOW AND BLACK BEAR MINES.

Comments on development

  • THE UNNAMED MINE PROBABLY DATES TO THE 1800'S BUT ANY SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTION IS DOUBTFUL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UNPUBLISHED FILE; WINDSOR MINERALS, LUDLOW, VERMONT.

  • Deposit

    MILLER, R., 1985, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION.

  • Deposit

    Unpublished File; Windsor Minerals, Ludlow, Vermont

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Editor 01-JAN-2003 L. G. Woodruff U.S. Geological Survey checked references; location; commodities; ore materials
Updater 01-APR-1998 Fred Beck, Inc. Contractor ADDED RAINBOW AND BLACK BEAR TO SYNONYM FIELD; CHANGED STATUS TO INACTIVE
Reporter 01-OCT-1985 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation

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