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Rainbow

Past Producer in Siskiyou 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103294
MRDS ID M023321
Record type Site
Current site name Rainbow
Alternate or previous names Victory Gold Mines
Related records 10189292

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.02584, 41.33067 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position 1.7 MI. E. FINLEY CAMP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Siskiyou(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tanners Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hoopa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Salmon(hydrologic unit)

Klamath(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Klamath 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 California Siskiyou

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Humboldt 040N 010W 16,17,20 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Analytical data

Result ON MARIETTA CLAIM, FREE GOLD PANS AT SURFACE. BUT NO SYSTEM OF SAMPLING AND ASSAYING HAS BEEN ADOPTED TO SHOW TONNAGE & VALUE CLAIMED TO BE IN SIGHT, ALTHOUGH HUNDREDS OF RANDOM ASSAYS PROBABLY HAVE BEEN MADE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • SEVERAL BELTS OF SCHIST, 50 FT. THICK, STRIKE N20E, DIP STEEPLY WEST. SCHIST PROBABLY DERIVED FROM OLDER SERIES OF BASIC INTRUSIVE ROCK, W/ASSOC. BEDS OF LIMESTONE. THOUGHT THAT DUE TO STRUCTURAL WEAKNESS OF BEDS, THEY BECAME LOCUS FOR SHEARING MOVEMENTS & SUBSEQUENT MINERALIZATION AFTER OR CONTEMPORANEOUS W/INJECTION OF DIKES, WHICH ARE SEVERAL GENERATIONS. SCHIST THOUGHT TO BE METAMORPHASED SEDIMENTS OF ALGONKIAN AGE. OTHERS GROUPED THEM AS PRECAMBRIAN METAMORPHICS, BELIEVING THEM PARTLY IGNEOUS IN ORIGIN. SCHIST IS HIGH IN HORNBLENDE, OCCASIONAL GRAPHITE AND CONSIDERABLE CALCITE PRESENT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • ORE SAID TO AVG. $37/TON IN GOLD BY MILLING. (FROM SOURDOUGH CLAIM). NO PRODUCTION RECORD FOUND.

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVEL. ON VICTORY, HARDSCRABBLE AND ADVANCE CLAIMS FOR NEARLY 1 MILE ALONG STRIKE. SOURDOUGH HAS ADITS, 175 & 160 FT. LONG, 55 FT. SHAFT ON 4 FT. THICK VEIN. ALSO 300 FT. CROSSCUT & CONSIDERABLE DRIFTING. ON PEERLESS CLAIM, 2 CROSSCUTS, 92 AND 110 FT. LONG. ON LENA & PAULINE CLAIMS, ASSESSMENT WORK ONLY. OVER 200 FT. OF DEVEL. ON HUMMING BIRD, INCL. 79 FT. SHAFT, 120 FT. CROSSCUT. CROSSCUTS STARTED ON HARDSCRABBLE EXT. NO. 1 AND NO. 2 CLAIMS. MILLSITE AND SEVERAL BUILDINGS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OBRIEN, J.C., 1947, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SISKIYOU COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 43, NO. 4, P. 447 PL. 42

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1935, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SISKIYOU COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 31, NO. 3, P. 311, PL. 4

  • Deposit

    LOGAN, C.A., 1925, SACRAMENTO FIELD DIVISION: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 21, NO. 4, P. 459-460

  • Production

    LOGAN (1925)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 4 QUARTZ AND 4 PLACER CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit STRINGERS & NARROW VEINS NUMEROUS DIKES INTERBEDDED W/SCHIST, USUALLY SEEN IN WORKINGS ALONG HANGING WALL SECTIONS. SAID TO CONTAIN BEST ORE.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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