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Mountain Queen Mine

Past Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold
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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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102440
MRDS ID M002132
Record type Site
Current site name Mountain Queen Mine
Alternate or previous names Scribner
Related records 10112529

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.54314, 31.70375 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 2 MI N OF SWISSHELM MOUNTAIN; ADJOINS CHANCE SHAFT PROPERTY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Swisshelm Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chiricahua Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Whitewater Draw(hydrologic unit)

Rio De Bavispe(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management AZ)

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

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 20S 27E 12 S2 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • S CENTRAL SEC. 12. UTM ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) Strong Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Naco Group Limestone
    Rock description Naco Group Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.54314, 31.70375
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Nnw Thrust Faults In Swisshelms Overthrust Penn Naco Group Over Rhyolite Porphyry
Type of structure Local
Structure description On Upthrown Side Of Nw Trending Fault, Penn Naco Group Strikes Nw

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 30.48M
    Width 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault And Fracture Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1885
Discoverer John(?) Scribner Of Tombstone
Year of first production 1885
Year of last production 1953

Mining district

District name Swisshelm District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner R. L. Brown
    First year 1953
  • Type Owner
    Owner Gold Metals Consolidated
    First year 1958

Comments on the production information

  • SOME 50,000 TONS OF ORE PRODUCED INTERMITTENTLY FROM1885 TO 1913, 1921 TO 1933, AND 1939 TO 1954. PRE-1913 PRODUCTION NOT REPORTED IN ABGMT-USBM FILE. ABGMT-USBM FIGURES INCLUDE THE GREAT AMERICAN MINE FOR 1925, 1933, AND 1934

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Area 2.804HA
    Length 304.8M
    Overall depth 64.01M
    Overall length 243.84M
    Overall width 121.92M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE INTERCONNECTED UNDERGROUND WITH THE CHANCE MINE

Comments on development

  • ONE OF A GROUP OF THREE CLAIMS CALLED THE SCRIBNER, THE OTHER TWO BEING THE MAMMOTH AND THE WHALE; OTHER PAST OPERATORS INCLUDE FANDALL, FOUR HORSE MINING, MANHATTAN CONSOLIDATED, LARSEN, HAYNIE, FARWELL, HUNT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MS THESIS, MT. QUEEN AREA, BY W. B. LORING, UNIV. OF ARIZ

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S.B., 1973, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 187, P. 71.

  • Deposit

    COOPER, 1956, USGS MAP MF-213

  • Deposit

    ABM BULL 158, P. 32

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA DEPT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Production

    KEITH, 1973, ARIZ. BUR. OF MINES BULL. 187.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE ALONG THE CONTACT OF FOLDED, FAULTED, AND FRACTURED LIMESTONE AND DIORITE PORPHYRY INTRUDED ALONG A STRONG THRUST FAULT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere, W. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Roth, Frances A. (Gest, Don E.) U.S. Geological Survey

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