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Copper Queen Mine

Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109508
MRDS ID M031208
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Queen Mine
Alternate or previous names Signal Mine
Related records 10296187

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.60697, 39.70271 (WGS84)
Elevation 2575

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kern Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe 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 Nevada White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 21N 65E 11 SW OF SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • A MILE WEST OF OLD AURUM IN SILVER CANYON ON THE CLIFFS ABOUT 150 FT ABOVE AND SOUTH OF THE CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sericite Ore
Silver Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.60697, 39.70271
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Fault, Eastward-Trending
Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault, Dikes

Comments on the geologic information

  • MAIN ORE BODY IS AT THE TOP OF THE QUARTZITE SERIES, BELOW THE TRUE LIMESTONES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Aurum (Silver Canyon Subdistrict)

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • THE ORE MAY AVERAGE 2 TO 8% COPPER

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 9.14M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 30 FT SHAFT, TWO PARALLEL TUNNELS 50 FT APART

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HILL, JAMES M, 1916 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA, US GEO. BULL. 648

  • Deposit

    HOSE, R. K., BLAKE, M. C. JR., AND SMITH, R., 1976, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 85

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, MILS DATA

  • Production

    HILL 1916

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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