Mine detail: Copper Queen Mine

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Location: Yavapai County, Arizona, United States, North America
Lat / long: 34.45644, -112.19018
dep_id: 10027247
mrds_id: M002607
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Minor mineral: Silver, Gold, Zinc
Trace mineral: Arsenic
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite
gangue: Actinolite, Calcite, Chlorite, Quartz, Sericite
other_matl: Pyrite
orebody_fm: LENS
work_type: Underground
alteration: Chloritization, Sericitization
conc_proc: Oxidation At Near Surface
ore_ctrl: Stratigraphy, Igneous Activity
Reporter: Gere, W., Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.), Roth, Frances A. (Dewitt, Ed)
hrock_unit: Lower Unit Of Spud Mountain Volcanics
hrock_type: Chert,Tuff,Rhyolite,Andesite
arock_unit: Spud Mountain Volcanics
arock_type: Tuff,Rhyolite,Andesite
Structure: Foliation And Transposed Bedding In Metavolcanic Rocks Trends N-S To N15w, Massive Sulfide Lenses Parallel Stratigraphic Units
Year first produced: 1901
yr_lst_prd: 1967
References:
  • 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
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