Mine detail: Rainbow Pits

Previously called 'Rainbow Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.19162, -113.37749

Resource(M)

Primary:	Tungsten
Tertiary:	Molybdenum
Ore:	Powellite, Scheelite
Gangue:	Andradite, Diopside, Epidote, Hornblende, Pyrite, Quartz, Vesuvianite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Weeks Limestone;
Host type:	Limestone
Associated rock:	Porphyritic Granite (Notch Peak Intrusion);
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	Sevier Thrust Belt, Basin-Range Faults Bounding The House Range, Possible Fault (Post-Mineral?)
Tectonic:	Granite Intruded In A Back-Arc Setting
Alteration processes:	Metasomatism, Contact Metamorphism

References

MRDS	RE00180
DEP	10088981
Reference	{Deposit:: EVERETT, 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN UTAH: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8014, 44P.}{Deposit:: PETERSEN, D.M., 1976, GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOLOGY OF THE NOTCH PEAK TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS, MILLARD COUNTY, UTAH: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, M.S. THESIS, 74P.}{Deposit:: HINTZE, L.F., 1974, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE NOTCH PEAK QUADRANGLE, MILLARD CONTY, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-636.}{Deposit:: GRAY, R.S., 1956, PRELIMINARY REPORT OF GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE TREASURE MONTAIN MINING CO., HOUSE TANGE, MILLARD COUNTY, UTAH: UNPUBLISED REPORT.}
Reporter	Shubat, Michael A.