Commodities
PrimaryTungsten
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeContact Metamorphic
Deposit sizeS
WorkingsSurface
Orebody formIRREGULAR
Ore controlProximity To Contact Zone Of The Intrusive With The Limestone, And A Northwest Trending Fracture Zone
Materials
Ore mineralsScheelite
GangueEpidote, Idocrase
Geology
Host rockLimestone,Dolomite · Big Hourse Canyon Ls Member Of The Orr Formation;Weeks Formation;Marjum Formation
Associated rockQuartz Monzonite,Plutonic Rock,Granite · Painter Springs Intrusion
StructureBasin And Range, The Area Is A Limestone Roof Pendant Domed Up By The Intrusive. It Is Also A Titled (Se) Fault Block
Tectonic settingCordilleran Geosyncline
AlterationSkarn
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1955
Identification
Deposit ID10087000
MRDS IDD004370
Alternate namesRainbow
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates39.18967, -113.3761
References
EVERTS, M.L., 1979, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY: ON SITE INVESTIGATIONHINTZE, L.F., 1974, PRELIM. GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE NOTCH PEAK QUADRANGLE MILLARD COUNTY, UTAH: USGS MF-636EVERETT, F.D., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR #80141876 RECON GILBERT, G.K., 100TH MERIDIAN RPT. V.31908 RECON WALCOTT, C.D., SMITHSONIAN MIS COLL. V.531951 RECON WHEELER, H.E., UGMS GUIDEBOOK #6EVERETT, F.D., 1961.