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Copper Queen

Past Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Cadmium, Copper, Zinc
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10113501
MRDS ID M003476
MAS/MILS ID 0040250573
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Queen
Related records 10102525

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -113.22857, 34.54004 (WGS84)
Elevation 1128
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bagdad(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bagdad(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Santa Maria(hydrologic unit)

Bill Williams(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 014 N 009 W 20 C S2NW Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Cadmium Secondary
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Early Proterozoic granitic rocks
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Mixed

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Cyprus Mines Inc
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1980

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ADMR COPPER QUEEN MINE FILE

  • Deposit

    AZBM BULL 180 MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF AZ 1969 P 99

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-NOV-83 ADMR U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Cyprus Mines Inc — now part of Subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan (2007)
    Merged with AMAX into Cyprus Amax (1993); then to Phelps Dodge (1999); then to Freeport-McMoRan (2007).

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.