Mine detail: Scheelite Queen Mine

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Location: Millard County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.19662, -113.3961
dep_id: 10011246
mrds_id: D005790
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tungsten
Minor mineral: Molybdenum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Medium ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Molybdenite, Scheelite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
alteration: Tactite, Scarn
Reporter: Everts, Michael L.
hrock_unit: Big Horse Member Of The Orr Formation (Host);Weeks Limestone
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_unit: Painter Spring Intrusive
arock_type: Monzonite
Structure: Basin & Range, East Limb Of Se Dipping Fault Block That Has Been Domed By Jurassic Intrusion
tectonic: Cordilleran Geosyncline
Year first produced: 1941
References:
  • Deposit:: EVERTS, M.L., 1979, UTAH GEOL. & MIN SURVEY: ON SITE INVESTIGATION
  • Deposit:: HINTZE, L.F., 1974, PRELIM. GEOL. MAP OF NOTCH PEAK QUAD, MILLARD CO, UTAH: USGS MF 636
  • Deposit:: EVERETT, F.D., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USBM INFOR. CIRC. #8014
  • Deposit:: 1876 RECON GILBERT, G.K., 100TH MER. RPT V. 3
  • Deposit:: 1908 RECON WALCOTT, C.D., SMITHSONIAN MIS. COL. V 53
  • Deposit:: 1951 RECON WHEELER, H.E., UGMS GUIDEBOOK #6
  • Production:: EVERETT, F.D., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USBM INFOR. CIRC. 8014
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