The Rainbow is a gold mine located in Siskiyou county, California at an elevation of 5,400 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 5,400 Feet (1,646 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 41.33083, -123.02472
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Rainbow MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Rainbow
Secondary: Victory Gold Mines
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: California
County: Siskiyou
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Pacific Border Province
Physiographic Section: Klamath Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 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.
Materials
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Comments
Comment (Deposit): STRINGERS & NARROW VEINS NUMEROUS DIKES INTERBEDDED W/SCHIST, USUALLY SEEN IN WORKINGS ALONG HANGING WALL SECTIONS. SAID TO CONTAIN BEST ORE.
Comment (Production): ORE SAID TO AVG. $37/TON IN GOLD BY MILLING. (FROM SOURDOUGH CLAIM). NO PRODUCTION RECORD FOUND.
Comment (Workings): 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.
Comment (Geology): 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.
Comment (Deposit): 4 QUARTZ AND 4 PLACER CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (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
Reference (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
Reference (Deposit): LOGAN, C.A., 1925, SACRAMENTO FIELD DIVISION: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 21, NO. 4, P. 459-460
Reference (Production): LOGAN (1925)
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