Mine detail: Jasper Queen Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

39.03583, -105.41141

Resource(M)

Primary:	Tungsten
Tertiary:	Copper, Molybdenum
Ore:	Copper, Molybdenite, Scheelite
Gangue:	Clinozoisite, Epidote, Garnet, Quartz, Vesuvianite, Wollastonite
Orebody form:	LENSOID

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Biotite Gneiss (Idaho Springs Formation)
Host type:	Mica Schist,Gneiss
Associated rock:	Pegmatites Possibly Related To Boulder Creek Granitoid;Silver Plume Quartz Monzonite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite,Pegmatite
Structure:	South Park, Front Range, Tarryall Mountains, Puma Hills, Nw-Trending Faults
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mtns

References

MRDS	D009182
DEP	10013085
Reference	{Deposit:: COLORADO METAL MINING FUND BOARD, 1960, TUNGSTEN MINES OF COLORADO: COLORADO METAL MINING FUND BOARD, P. 41}{Deposit:: HEINRICH, E.W., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN TUNGSTEN AND COPPER-ZINC SKARN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SERIES 21, 115 P.}{Deposit:: BRYANT, BRUCE, MCGREW, L.W., AND WOBUS, R.A., 1981, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE DENVER 1 DEGREES X 2 DEGREES QUADRANGLE, NORTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1163, 1:250,000.}{Production:: BELSER (1956)}
Reporter	Collins, Donna B.