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Desert Queen Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047289
MRDS ID M242568
Record type Site
Current site name Desert Queen Mine
Alternate or previous names Chrysler-Bonanza Group, Manitou Gold Mining Co. Property, NBMG Sample Site 2650
Related records 10270009

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.89154, 39.79907 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341
Relative position ABOUT 0.75 MILE S 25 W FROM PEAK OF CINNABAR HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Desert Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 022N;022N 027E;028E 01;06 SE (01); SW OF SW (06) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 2.75 MILES N 70 E OF DESERT PEAK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Melaconite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinization, Chloritization Of Diorite Wallrock

Analytical data

Result AG 0-70 PPM
Result AU 0.22-7.62 PPM. NBMG SAMPLE 2650, A DUMP SAMPLE OF BRECCIATED QUARTZ VEIN MATERIAL CONTAINING CU MINERALS AND OTHER SULFIDES, CONTAINS 3% FE, 0.05% CA, 0.01% II, 300 PPM MN, 500 PPM AG, 1000 PPM AS, 10 PPM AU, 20 PPM B, 50 PPM BA, 1 PPM BE, 70 PPM BI, 5000 PPM CU, 10 PPM MO, 500 PPM PB, 500 PPM SB, 70 PPM V, 10 PPM ZR. A ANALYSIS ALSO SHOWED 21 PPM AU.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.89154, 39.79907
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shears, Joints In Diorite.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N30W-N70W
    Dip 35-45 NE
    Thickness 7.62M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone; Strong Jointing

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINE IS DEVELOPED ALONG A SET OF QUARTZ VEINS THAT PARALLEL JOINTS IN A BODY OF DIORITE. VEINS AND JOINTS STRIKE N 70 DEG W AND DIP 35 - 40 DEG NE. THE VEINS ARE CLOSELY SPACED BUT PINCH AND SWELL ALONG THEIR COURSE; THE THICKNESS OF INDIVIDUAL VEINS IS ABOUT 5-6 INCHES IN GENERAL. THE MINERALIZED ZONE IS 5 TO 6 FEET THICK. WORKINGS CONSIST OF ADITS AT SEVERAL LEVELS, PROSPECT PITS, AND AN INCLINED SHAFT. (WILDEN AND SPEED, P.66-67)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1860

Mining district

District name Desert District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Herman N. Marker And K. O. Olfers Of Lovelock
    First year 1940

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL IS FOR 1883, 1884, 1938 AND 1939. NO RECORDED PRODUCTION SINCE 1951, BUT PRODUCTION WAS DOUBTLESS LARGER THAN THIS AMT.

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL ADITS AND SHAFTS. INCLINED SHAFT ON VEIN, STOPING FROM SURFACE DOWN, CAVED ADIT, CUTS. MOST EXTENSIVE WORKINGS OF THE DISTRICT.

Comments on development

  • RUINS OF OLD STONE CABIN, SQUARE NAILS AND PURPLE GLASS FRAGMENTS INDICATE THAT ACTIVITY DATES TO 1860-1870. IT MAY HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED AS EARLY AS 1849 BY EMIGRANTS, AND IT WAS WORKED INTERMITTENTLY BEGINNING IN THE 1860'S. A MILL WAS ERECTED IN 1863, AND A SECOND MILL WAS BUILT LATER. IN 1931, A LOVELOCK GROUP RELOCATED THE CLAIMS AND IN 1932, THE MANITOU GOLD MINING CO. WAS ORGANIZED. A MILL WAS ERECTED BY THEM IN 1937. THEIR HOLDINGS COMPRISED 10 UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN 1940.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W.O., 1940, USBM I.C. 7093

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., 1985, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION, 2/26/85, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS

  • Production

    WILLDEN, VANDERBURG.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 1-2 FT THICK FROM OXIDE-STAINED QUARTZ VEINS FOLLOW SHEAR ZONE IN DIORITE, WHICH IS KAOLINIZED AND CHLORITIZED, AND CUT BY SEVERAL 1-2 INCH THICK APLITE DIKES WHICH ARE PALE GREEN (CHLORITIZED). VEINS AND ADJACENT WALLROCKS ARE FE-OXIDE STAINED, SOME CU OXIDE STAINING, WALLROCK IS SHEETED PARALLEL TO VEINING TO THE SE (UP THE SLOPE TO THE RIDGE CREST), WHERE THE ZONE BECOMES 20-25 FT THICK CONTAINING 5-6, 0.5-1 FT THICK QUARTZ VEINS. ZONE AND VEIN TREND N 30 W, DIP 45 NE. VEIN MATERIAL CONSISTS OF CLEAR AND WHITE VITREOUS QUARTZ, BRECCIATED, WITH CLOTS OF CHALCOPYRITE OXIDIZING TO MELACONITE, GREEN CU OXIDES; THERE ARE STREAKS AND IRREGULARLY SHAPED DROPLETS OF A DARK SULFIDE IN THE CLEAR QUARTZ.
Deposit THIS IS AN UPDATED VERSION OF A PREVIOUS RECORD (M231003) THAT HAS BEEN MERGED WITH THIS ONE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Flynn, Patricia Dodd Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) U.S. Geological Survey

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