Rainbow Mine (Copper Penny Mine; Norps group; Silver Thread Mine; Two Sisters Mine; Old Gold claims), Weldon Hill, Harquahala Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 33°43'3"N
Longitude: 113°19'15"W
‡Ref.: Stewart, L.A. & A.J. Pfister (1960), Barite deposits of Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 5651: 83-84.
Meeves, H.C. (1966), Nonpegmatitic beryllium occurrence in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and four adjacent states, US Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 6828.
Minerals Availability System (MAS): Arizona fluorspar: Arizona Department of Mineral Resources, March, 1976.
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources Mineral Report 4, 185 pp..
Peirce, H.W. (1990), AZ Geol. Sur. Industrial Minerals card file.
USGS 15 minute Lone Mountain topo. map.
Yale Peabody GNIS database (NOTE: this database is derived from USGS 1:24,000 topographic map data).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10095781, 10186124 & 10234798; and, Dep. ID #10060293, MRDS ID #TC10312; and, Dep. ID #10259318, MAS ID #0040120361.
A former surface and underground Cu-Ti-Sr-Cr-Mn-Zn-Pb-Baryte-Fluorspar mine. The Copper Penny property includes 98 claims, covering the former Alaska, Weldon Hill & Rainbow Mines. NOTE: This circumstance would indicate that the property also includes the recently staked Spectrum claims.
NOTE: Alternate coordinates provided: 33.71722N, 113.32083W; or 33.72670N, 113.32580W; or 33.72611N, 113.34167W.
Mineralization is vein deposits.
Field observations by C. Lemanski, Jr.: The mine has an adit tunnel in a hillside. A prospect has been opened on the back side of the hill exposing mineralized areas containing tiny wulfenite crystals. The area surrounding the mine has been systematically drilled (exploration) for determinations of fluorspar abundance.
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