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Copper Queen Mine

Occurrence in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Tungsten
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10111435
MRDS ID M231020
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Queen Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site 2995

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.8296, 39.99489 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position 1/3 MI SOUTH OF PERSHING COUNTY LINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Plains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Granite Springs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Truckee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 025N 028E 34 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = DESERT PEAK (1951) 1:625000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 2995 OF GARNET SKARN CONTAINS 5 % FE, 0.7 % MG, 15 % CA, 0.03 % TI, 3000 PPM MN, 15 PPM B, 20 PPM BA, 70 PP-M CU, 5 PPM NI, 10 PPM SN, 100 PPM SR, 70 PPM V, 30 PPM ZR.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 42
USGS model code 14a
Deposit model name W skarn

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.8296, 39.99489
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Between Limestone & Granodiorite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Jessup

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • A VERTICAL SHAFT PENETRATES A LARGE TACTITE ZONE DEVELOPED AT THE CONTACT BETWEEN & GRANODIORITE PLUTON AND A LIMESTONE AND MARBLE UNIT OF PROBABLE TRIASSIC TO JURASSIC AGE. LARGE MASSES OF QUARTZ OCCUR IN THE TACTITE, AND THE MINE DUMP IS COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF TACTITE. NO SULFIDES OR SECONDARY COPPER MINERALS ARE FOUND IN THE DUMP MATERIAL, SO SOME ORE MUST HAVE BEEN HAULED AWAY. SIGNS OF MAN INDICATE ACTIVITY IN THE EARLY 1900'S.. SEVERAL CUTS AND TRENCHES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, RONALD, AND SPEED, R.C., 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL 83

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J. V., 1985, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION, 4-16-85

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OUTCROPS AROUND SHAFT ARE MOSTLY GRANODIORITE WITH SOME SMALL IRREGULAR PODS OF SKARN. A SMALL HILL TO THE NORTH O-F THE SHAFT IS COMPOSED OF MASSIVE WHITE QUARTZ. SEVERAL CUTS -AND TRENCHES TO THE SOUTH AND THE WEST OF THE SHAFT EXPOSE FIN-GERS OF SKARN ALONG AN IRREGULAR GRANODIORITE-SEDIMENT CONTACT-; GRANODIORITE TO THE NORTH, SEDIMENTS TO THE SOUTH. ROCK ON T-HE COPPER QUEEN DUMP IS MOSTLY PALE RED-BROWN SKARN (GARNET) C-ONTAINING MINOR AMOUNTS OF PYRITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Flynn, Patricia Dodd Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-JUL-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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