Silver Queen Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite

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Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Public Land Survey System information
Commodities
Materials information
Nearby scientific data
Ore body information
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Mineral rights holdings
Land status
Workings at the site
Links to other databases
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10203429
MRDS ID	DC12140
MAS/MILS ID	0490450022
Record type	Site
Current site name	Silver Queen Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference	Ore Body
Geographic coordinates:	-113.29113, 40.49213 (WGS84)
Elevation	1303

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country	State	County
United States	Utah	Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian	Township	Range	Section	Fraction	State
Salt Lake	004 S	013 W	11	NENE	Utah

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Copper	Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical	Tertiary

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Azurite	Unknown
Chalcopyrite	Unknown
Fluorite	Unknown
Malachite	Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1)	-113.29113, 40.49213	ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

Strike

N77E

Dip

50N

Length

76M

Width

Area

32HA

Depth to top

Field	Value
Type of Orebody #1	FISSURE VEIN
Shape of Orebody #1	LENTICULAR
Primary mode of Origin	HYDROTHERMAL
Primary Ore Control	FAULTING
Degree of Wallrock Alter.	SLIGHT
Type of Wallrock Alter. #1	DOLOMITIZATION
Strike And Dip	N77E:50N
Minimum Depth to Top	0
Total Surface Area (HA)	32
Date of Last Modification	780213

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type	Surface-Underground
Development status	Past Producer
Commodity type	Both
Significant	No
Discovery year	1898

Mining district

District name	Dugway Wildcat

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights	Patented

Land status

Ownership category	Federal

Comments on the production information

75 904 TONS OF ORE HAVE BEEN SHIPPED PREVIOUSLY 75 WENDOVER BOMBING AND GUNNERY RANGE U S AIR FORCE 75 CLAIM IS ON A MILITARY RESERVATION 75 MALACHITE AND AZURITE ARE OXIDIZED ORES

Workings at the site

Type of workings

Surface

Field	Value
MAS Development Schedule #	1
Mining Record #	1
Status of Mining Method	ESTIMATE
Mining Method	OPEN PIT
Avg. Overburden Thickness	0
Capacity Units	MT ORE/DAY
Units of Production	$/MT ORE
Year of Information	1975