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Silver Queen Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Antimony, Lead, Uranium, Copper, Iron
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037624
MRDS ID M035683
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Queen Mine
Alternate or previous names Dixie Group, NBMG Sample Site #3646

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.30928, 38.64159 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Relative position APPROX. 11 MI. NW OF LUNING. THIS PROPERTY IS JUST EAST OF A POWER LINE ROAD TO A RADIO TOWER. THE ROAD PROVIDES THE BEST ACCESS TO THIS PART OF THE DISTRICT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Win Wan Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009N 033E 16 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • GROUP OF PROSPECT PITS, ADITS AND SHAFTS AT END OF DIRT RD. OFF MAIN RD. AT 6125 T

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Antimony Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Uranium Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitic

Analytical data

Result SELECT SAMPLE CONTAINED 0.01 PERCENT EU3O8

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.30928, 38.64159
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Southeast Trending Fault

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Radioactivity Reported Along Fault And Joint Planes

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Fitting

Comments on the workings information

  • THE WORKINGS ARE ALONG A N20 DEGREE W TREND AND COVER APPROXIMATELY A THIRD OF A MILE. 3SHAFTS, 5 ADITS, AND PROSPECT PITS. A LOADING PLATFORM SUGGESTS SOME ORE WAS SHIPPED BUT IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT ANY MILLING WAS DONE AT THE SITE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L. J., 1973 , RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURENCES IN NEVADA, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULL. 81 .

  • Deposit

    SILVER QUEEN MINE, FITTING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE, JACK NBMG #3646 SAMPLE SITE VISIT, 5/5/89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILE (TINGLEY FILES).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BG = 0.11 MR/HR.; HIGH = 0.22 MR/HR.
Deposit THERE IS SOME DOUBT THAT THIS PROPERTY IS THE SILVER QUEEN MINE OR THAT A SILVER QUEEN MINE EXISTS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1980 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1989 Quade, Jack U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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