Mine detail: Tungsten Queen Mine and Plant

Previously called 'Hamme Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 36.51228, -78.46973

Resource(B)

Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Copper, Lead, Sulfur
Other material: Apatite, Covellite, Fluorite, Galena, Huebnerite, Pyrite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Scheelite, Sericite
Discovery year: 1942

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1942

Geology

References

MAS371810001
DEP10151777
Reference{Deposit:: BROADHURST, S.D. TOPOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, AND MINERAL RESOURCES}{Deposit:: OF NORTH CAROLINA. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVA-}{Deposit:: TION AND DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATIONAL SERIES 2, 1961, 17 PP.}{Deposit:: MALCOLM, J.B. HAMME MINE REOPENING MADE FEASIBLE THROUGH}{Deposit:: CHANGE IN MINING METHOD. MINING ENGINEERING, V. 14, APRIL}{Deposit:: 1962, PP. 44-49.}{Deposit:: RANCHERS EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.}{Deposit:: PROSPECTUS, 1969, P. 2.}{Deposit:: ROMAGNOLI, E. TUNGSTEN. ENG. AND MIN. J., V. 173, MARCH}{Deposit:: 1972, P. 107.}{Deposit:: STUCKLEY, J.L. MINERAL INDUSTRY OF NORTH CAROLINA FROM 1960}{Deposit:: THROUGH 1967. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND}{Deposit:: DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC PAPER 68, 1970, P. 9.}{Deposit:: SWEET, J.R. TUNGSTEN MINING IN NORTH CAROLINA. MIN. CONG.}{Deposit:: J., V. 40, AUGUST 1954, PP. 81-86.}
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