Czar Mine (Czar Shaft), Copper Queen Mine (Halero Mine), Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

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Arizona Bureau of Mines files.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10046247, MRDS ID M241116; and, Dep. ID #10112426, MAS ID #0040030594.

A former large output underground Cu-Ag-Au-Pb-Zn mine located in the South-central sec. 9, T.23S., R.24E. (Bisbee 7.5 minute topo map), approximately 1½ miles NW of Lowell, on private land. A major shaft of the Copper Queen Mine workings. Owned by the Phelps Dodge Corp.

Mineralization is mainly oxidized copper ores with some areas of zinc and lead ore in irregular replacement bodies in Devonian Martin and Lower Mississippian Escabrosa limestones that have been shattered and crushed by faulting and fracturing and altered and intruded by porphyry dikes and sills. Ore control was nearby dikes and sills, and faulting and associated brecciation. Ore concentration was bornite replacing pyrite. Alteration was gossan with Mn and Fe oxides induced by hydrothermal metamorphism. An associated rock unit is the Sacramento Hill Stock.

Local structures include common pre-mineralization faulting and tilting. Main fault directions are N10W to N40E and S30W to N50W.

Workings include a deep shaft to 134.11 meters deep. This shaft has 4 levels that connect to the other shafts. A major producer in its early history. Tonnages are included in Phelps Dodge totals.

Mineral List

Aurichalcite Azurite Brucite Chalcoalumite

Chrysocolla Connellite Copper Cuprite

Cuprite var: Chalcotrichite Goethite Malachite Pyrite

Rhomboclase Silver Spangolite Tenorite

16 entries listed. 15 valid minerals.