Mine detail: Tungsten Queen Mine and Plant

Location:	Vance County, North Carolina, United States, North America
Lat / long:	36.51228, -78.46973
dep_id:	10151777
mas_id:	371810001
Commodity type:	metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral:	Tungsten
Trace mineral:	Copper, Lead, Sulfur
Operation type:	Underground
Development status:	Past Producer
other_matl:	Apatite, Covellite, Fluorite, Galena, Huebnerite, Pyrite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Scheelite, Sericite
work_type:	Underground
Reporter:	Hartos
Year first produced:	1942
disc_yr:	1942
References:	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.