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Evening Star Mine (Silver Queen Mine; Old Queen group), Tiger Wash, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA

‡Ref.: Allen, G.B. (1985), Economic Geology of the Big Horn Mountains of west-central Arizona: Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology open-file report 85-17.

Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 10 (Table 1).

Grant, Raymond W., Bideaux, R.A., and Williams, S.A. (2006) Minerals Added to the Arizona List 1995-2005: 5.

Vajdak, Josef (2002) personal communication to Chester S. Lemanski, Jr.

USGS 15 minute Big Horn Mountains topo. map.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources (ADMR) Evening Star Mine file.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources (ADMR) "U" file.

U.S. Bureau of Mines card file.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027066.

A former underground Cu-V-Pb-Au-Ag-W mine located in the SE¼ sec. 7, T.4N., R.9W. (Big Horn Mountains 15 minute topo map).

Mineralization includes secondary copper minerals with ore in veins and pods in a shear zone.





Map Reference: 33°42'2"N , 113°12'51"W

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Mineral List:
Alamosite ?
Anglesite
Calcite
Caledonite ?
Cerussite
Chrysocolla
Creaseyite
Descloizite ?
Duftite
Fluorite
Fornacite
Galena
Hydrocerussite
Kamitugaite
Luddenite ?
Massicot
Mimetite
Minium
Murdochite
Phoenicochroite
Quartz
Shattuckite ?
Silver
Tenorite
Wherryite
Wickenburgite
Willemite
Wulfenite


28 entries listed. 28 valid minerals.

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