Mine detail: Copper Queen Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

34.45644, -112.19018

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Silver, Gold, Zinc
Tertiary:	Arsenic
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Actinolite, Calcite, Chlorite, Quartz, Sericite
Orebody form:	LENS
Other material:	Pyrite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1901
Last production ended:	1967

Geology

Host rock:	Lower Unit Of Spud Mountain Volcanics
Host type:	Chert,Tuff,Rhyolite,Andesite
Associated rock:	Spud Mountain Volcanics
Associated type:	Tuff,Rhyolite,Andesite
Structure:	Foliation And Transposed Bedding In Metavolcanic Rocks Trends N-S To N15w, Massive Sulfide Lenses Parallel Stratigraphic Units
Alteration processes:	Chloritization, Sericitization

References

MRDS	M002607
DEP	10027247
Reference	{Deposit:: LINDGREN, 1926, USGS BULL 782, P. 148.}{Deposit:: ANDERSON, C.A., AND BLACET, P.M., 1972, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN BRADSHAW MOUNTAINS, YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 1336, P. 75.}{Deposit:: BROOK, D.K., JR., 1974, RELATIVE AGES OF STRATA-FORM SULPHIDE ORE AND WALL ROCK, DETERMINED BY A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE COPPER QUEEN MINE, YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZONA: MASTERS THESIS, UNIV. OF ARIZONA}{Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: ARIZONA DEPT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}
Reporter	Gere, W., Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.), Roth, Frances A. (Dewitt, Ed)