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Copper Queen Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045466
MRDS ID M233212
Record type Deposit
Current site name Copper Queen Mine
Alternate or previous names Emma and St. Patrick Claims
Included sites New York Canyon/Longshot Ridge Project\n

Comments on the site identification

  • Copper Queen and Champion prospect, are part of the "New York Canyon" property owned by Canyon Copper Co.

    *****SEE New York Canyon/Longshot Ridge Project- Deposit ID 10310559

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.09623, 38.58103 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sunrise 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 008N 035E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON NORTH PART IF GIROUX MTN; UTM LOCATION IS ESTIMATED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Malachite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Granitic Rocks
    Rock description Granitic Rocks
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Luning
    Rock description Luning

Nearby scientific data

(1) Felsic phaneritic intrusive rocks
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Mineralization within the New York Canyon property consists principally of contact metasomatic copper skarn deposits, porphyry-type copper-molybdenum mineralization, and a combination or transition of these two types of mineralization. The property's copper skarns may be almost entirely oxidized, as at Longshot Ridge, or consist of both oxide and sulphide skarns as at the Champion prospect, located midway between the Longshot Ridge and Copper Queen prospects. At Copper Queen, the mineralization consists of copper sulphide skarn and porphyry copper-molybdenum sulphide.

    Contact metasomatic skarn (also known as tactite) typically occurs in carbonate sedimentary rocks adjacent to small to moderate sized intrusive rock bodies of intermediate composition, such as monzonite and granodiorite. Heat and fluids from the intrusion recrystallize and alter the carbonate rocks, converting limestone and limy sediments to higher temperature calc-silicate minerals such as garnet, epidote, diopside, tremolite and calcite (Lindgren, 1913; Titley, 1995). A variety of metalliferous deposits can be formed, including those that are copper-rich, iron-rich or tungsten-rich.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant Yes

Mining district

District name Santa Fe District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS SHIPPED

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 12.19M

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL ADITS, A SHAFT, AND SEVERAL SMALL OPEN CUTS.

Comments on development

  • CLAIMS EXTEND FOR SEVERAL THOUSAND FEET ALONG A TACTITE ZONE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D. C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 58

  • Geology

    Copper Canyon Corp 2010 10-K.

  • Deposit

    CLARK, 1922, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SANTA FE DISTRICT, NEVADA; CALIF. UNIV. DEPT. GEOL. SCI., VOL. 14, NO. 1

  • Production

    ROSS, D. C., 1961, TABLE 6.6

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TACTITE ZONE BETWEEN GRANITIC ROCK AND LIMESTONE CONTAINING OXIDE AND CARBONATE COPPER MINERALS, AS HIGH AS 8% CU LOCALLY. THE COPPER ORE IS SPORADICALLY DISTRIBUTED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1981 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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