Arizona · Cochise County
Past Producer

Copper Queen Mine

Cochise County, Arizona, United States
CopperGemstoneSemiprecious GemstoneLeadZincGoldSilver
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Commodities
PrimaryCopper, Gemstone, Semiprecious Gemstone
SecondaryLead, Zinc, Gold, Silver
Commodity typeB
Deposit
Deposit typePolymetallic replacement
Model53: Porphyry Cu58: Porphyry Cu, skarn-related72: Polymetallic replacement
Deposit sizeL
Orebody formIRREGULAR
Ore controlOre Bodies Near Dikes And Sills, And Faulting And Associated Brecciation
Materials
Ore mineralsAnglesite, Bornite, Calcite, Chalcocite, Copper, Cuprite, Delafossite, Gold, Malachite, Selenite
GanguePyrite, Quartz
Geology
Host rockLimestone · Escabrosa Limestone;Naco Limestone;Martin Limestone
Associated rockGranite · "Juniper Flat Granite ", "Sacramento Stock-Sacramento Quartz Porphyry "
StructurePre-Mineralization Faulting And Tilting, Main Fault Directions, N10w To N40e, S30w To N50w, Pre-Mineralization
AlterationGossan With Mn And Fe Oxides Induced By Hydrothermal Metamorphism
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1881
Discovery year1877
Identification
Deposit ID10046248
MRDS IDM241115
Alternate namesHalero, Bisbee
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates31.44097, -109.91509
References
KEITH, S.B., 1973, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 187, P. 86.RANSOME, USGS PP 21, P. 110, 13-15.ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 140.MINES HANDBOOK, 1931.USGS FOLIO 112, 1904.PHILLIPS, K.A., BEARD, R.R., NIEMUTH, N.J., AND BAIN, D.R., 1991, ACTIVE MINES IN ARIZONA--1992: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES DIRECTORY 39, 20 P.NIEMUTH, N.J., 1987, ARIZONA MINERAL DEVELOPMENT 1984-1986: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES DIRECTORY 29, 46 P.SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATS BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.PEIRCE, H.W., 1969, GEM MATERIALS, IN USGS, ABM, AND USBR, MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF ARIZONA: ABM BULLETIN 180, USGS BULLETIN 871, P. 359.Metals Economics Group (MEG) entry for Cochise/Bisbee:\nhttp://services.metalseconomics.com/minesearch/Default.aspx#profile&projAid=89923Mine history is available at Wikipedia:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Queen_MineBryant, D.G., Metz, H.E., 1966, Geology and ore deposits of the Warren mining district: in Titley, S.R., Hicks, C.L., 1966, Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits, Southwestern North America University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp 189-203Cook, S.S. and Porter, T.M., 2005, The Geologic History of Oxidation and Supergene Enrichment in the Porphyry Copper Deposits of Southwestern North America, in Porter, T.M., (Ed.), Super Porphyry Copper and Gold Deposits: A Global Perspective, v1 pp 207-242Titley, S.R., 1993, Characteristics of porphyry copper occurrence in the American Southwest; in Kirkham, R.V., Sinclair, W.D., Thorpe, R.I. and Duke, J.M., Mineral Deposit Modeling, Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 40, p. 433-464.Bryant, D.G. (1968), Intrusive breccias associated with ore, Warren (Bisbee) mining district, Arizona, Economic Geology: 61: 1-12.Lowell, J.D. and Guilbert, J.M., 1970, Lateral and vertical alteration-mineralization zoning in porphyry ore deposits; Economic Geology, v. 65, p. 373-408.Porter GeoConsultancy entry for Bisbee, Warren Mining District, Cochise, Arizona:\nhttp://www.portergeo.com.au/database/mineinfo.asp?mineid=mn742Einaudi, M.T., 1982, Description of skarns associated with porphyry copper plutons, in Titley, S.R., ed., Advances in geology of the porphyry copper deposits, southwestern North America: Tucson, University of Arizona Press.GILMOUR, P., 1982, GRADES AND TONNAGES OF PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS: IN - ADVANCES IN GEOLOGY OF THE PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS, SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA, ED. BY, S.R. TITLEY UNIV. AIR. PRESS, TUCSON, AZ, 1982.Titley, S.R., 1992, Evidence for crustal controls of metallogeneis in epigenetic ores of the Southern Cordillera, United States and Mexico: Society of Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration Annual Meeting Preprint 920-210, 11p.Mineralogy discussion at:\nhttp://www.mindat.org/loc-3318.htmlCIMRI