Copper Queen Mine

The Copper Queen Mine is a copper mine located in Mineral county, Nevada.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Copper Queen Mine
Secondary: Emma and St. Patrick Claims
Secondary: New York Canyon/Longshot Ridge Project

Commodity

Primary: Copper

Location

State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Santa Fe District

Land Status

Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Type: Surface/Underground

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Deposit
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Contact Metamorphic
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic

Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Malachite
Ore: Chrysocolla

Comments

Comment (Identification): Copper Queen and Champion prospect, are part of the "New York Canyon" property owned by Canyon Copper Co. *****SEE New York Canyon/Longshot Ridge Project- Deposit ID 10310559

Comment (Workings): SEVERAL ADITS, A SHAFT, AND SEVERAL SMALL OPEN CUTS.

Comment (Development): CLAIMS EXTEND FOR SEVERAL THOUSAND FEET ALONG A TACTITE ZONE

Comment (Deposit): TACTITE ZONE BETWEEN GRANITIC ROCK AND LIMESTONE CONTAINING OXIDE AND CARBONATE COPPER MINERALS, AS HIGH AS 8% CU LOCALLY. THE COPPER ORE IS SPORADICALLY DISTRIBUTED.

Comment (Geology): Mineralization within the New York Canyon property consists principally of contact metasomatic copper skarn deposits, porphyry-type copper-molybdenum mineralization, and a combination or transition of these two types of mineralization. The property's copper skarns may be almost entirely oxidized, as at Longshot Ridge, or consist of both oxide and sulphide skarns as at the Champion prospect, located midway between the Longshot Ridge and Copper Queen prospects. At Copper Queen, the mineralization consists of copper sulphide skarn and porphyry copper-molybdenum sulphide. Contact metasomatic skarn (also known as tactite) typically occurs in carbonate sedimentary rocks adjacent to small to moderate sized intrusive rock bodies of intermediate composition, such as monzonite and granodiorite. Heat and fluids from the intrusion recrystallize and alter the carbonate rocks, converting limestone and limy sediments to higher temperature calc-silicate minerals such as garnet, epidote, diopside, tremolite and calcite (Lindgren, 1913; Titley, 1995). A variety of metalliferous deposits can be formed, including those that are copper-rich, iron-rich or tungsten-rich.

Comment (Location): ON NORTH PART IF GIROUX MTN; UTM LOCATION IS ESTIMATED

Comment (Production): SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS SHIPPED

References

Reference (Deposit): ROSS, D. C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 58

Reference (Production): ROSS, D. C., 1961, TABLE 6.6

Reference (Deposit): CLARK, 1922, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SANTA FE DISTRICT, NEVADA; CALIF. UNIV. DEPT. GEOL. SCI., VOL. 14, NO. 1

Reference (Geology): Copper Canyon Corp 2010 10-K.

Nevada Gold

Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.