Copper Queen Group

Past Producer in Trinity county in California, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Mercury
Sections on this page
  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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10034200
MRDS ID M020924
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Queen Group
Related records 10287129

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.67333, 41.06456 (WGS84)
Elevation 914
Relative position 2 MI NORTHEAST OF CARRVILLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Trinity(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Carrville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Shasta(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Trinity(hydrologic unit)

Klamath(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Shasta-Trinity National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Trinity

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 037N 007W 16 N2 OF SE4 California

Comments on the location information

  • AT HEAD OF COPPER CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary
Mercury Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • OCCURENCE OF CINNABAR NOTED ON FLOOR OF OPEN-CUT ON WEST END.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Dike Is Chloritized

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 179
USGS model code 27c
Deposit model name Silica-carbonate Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Porphyry > Lamprophyre
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.67333, 41.06456

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form FRACTURE COATINGS, DISSEMINATED, VEIN

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT SOUNDS LIKE A MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT OVERPRINTED WITH A SILICA-CARBONATE HG DEPOSIT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1956

Mining district

District name Trinity Fork District

Land status

Ownership category National Recreation Area
Area name In Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Hoover Drilling Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner J. M. And I. M. Foster
    First year 1965

Comments on the production information

  • HOOVER DRILLING CO., IN 1956 SHIPPED TWO CARLOADS OF SURFACE MATERIAL. THEY DRILLED A 78 FT. DEEP HOLE-DID NOT FIND ORE.

Comments on the workings information

  • PRIOR TO 1905 : ONE ADIT ABOUT 225 FT LONG AND A SHALLOW SHAFT WITH DRIFTS EAST AND WEST NEAR CONTACT BETWEEN DIORITE AND SERPENTINE. OPEN CUT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROWN, G.C., 1916, TRINITY COUNTY, IN 14TH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 879.

  • Deposit

    O'BRIEN, J.C., 1965, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF TRINITY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, COUNTY REPORT 4, P. 21, 61, 120.

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1931, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE SHASTA QUADRANGLE, IN 27TH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 32.

  • Deposit

    MACDONALD, D.F., 1913, NOTES ON THE GOLD LODES OF THE CARRVILLE DISTRICT, TRINITY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 530, P. 29-30.

  • Production

    O'BRIEN, J.C., 1965 , P. 21

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IN SEAMS AND FRACTURES. ZONE OF SECONDARY CHALCOCITE CARRIES GOLD. ORE LIES IN UPPER PART OF GREEN, FINE-GRAINED GREENSTONE DIKE. WHERE DIKE CUTS SERPENTINE, ORE IS RICH IN CU, AU. WHERE IT CUTS ANDESITE, CU VEINS ARE SMALL. RICHEST ORE ON WESTERN (HANGING) WALL OF SMALL LAMPROPHYRE DIKES WHERE THEY CUT ORE BODY. SEE MACDONALD (1912)
Deposit MRDS RECORDS M023767, M055581 HAVE BEEN MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1979 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1991 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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