Mine detail: Golden Queen Mine

Previously called 'Las Flores Group'

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Location: Yuma County, Arizona, United States, North America
Lat / long: 32.78536, -114.38884
dep_id: 10027234
mrds_id: M002569
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Gold
Minor mineral: Silver, Copper
Trace mineral: Iron, Manganese, Gypsum-Anhydrite
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Sedimentary
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Gold, Gypsum
gangue: Quartz, Sericite
orebody_fm: LENTICULAR
work_type: Underground
conc_proc: Several Lenticular Quartz Veins Occupy Divergent Fault Zones And Have Been Considerably Fractured, Predominantly In Directions Parallel To Their Walls
Reporter: Gere, W., Hall, R. K. (Creasey, S. C.), Orris, Greta J.
hrock_type: Schist
arock_type: Granite
Year first produced: 1937
References:
  • Deposit:: WILSON, E.D.; 1933; GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 134, P. 215.
  • Deposit:: WILSON, E.D., CUNNINGHAM, J.B., BUTLER, G.M., 1934, ARIZONA LODE GOLD MINES AND GOLD MINING: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 137, P. 150.
  • Deposit:: KEITH, S.B., 1978, INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA; ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 192, P. 157.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
  • Production:: (8) KEITH, S.B., 1978
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