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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 ?
    Pb
     
    12
    [Si
     
    12
    O
     
    36
    ]
    Reference: []
  • Anglesite
    PbSO
     
    4
    Reference: []
  • Calcite
    CaCO
     
    3
    Reference: []
  • Caledonite ?
    Cu
     
    2
    Pb
     
    5
    [(OH)
     
    6
    |CO
     
    3
    |(SO
     
    4
    )
     
    3
    ]
    Reference: []
  • Cerussite
    PbCO
     
    3
    Reference: []
  • Chrysocolla
    (Cu,Al)
     
    2
    H
     
    2
    Si
     
    2
    O
     
    5
    (OH)
     
    4
    ·nH
     
    2
    O
    Reference: []
    Site Photo
    Evening Star Mine (Silver Queen Mine; Old Queen group), Tiger Wash, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
    © 2005 DM
  • Creaseyite
    Cu
     
    2
    Pb
     
    2
    (Fe,Al)
     
    2
    Si
     
    5
    O
     
    17
    ·6H
     
    2
    O
    Reference: []
    Site Photo
    Evening Star Mine (Silver Queen Mine; Old Queen group), Tiger Wash, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
    © DM 06
  • Descloizite ?
    Pb(Zn,Cu)[OH|VO
     
    4
    ]
    Reference: []
  • Duftite
    PbCu[OH|AsO
     
    4
    ]
    Reference: []
  • Fluorite
    CaF
     
    2
    Reference: []
  • Fornacite
    Pb
     
    2
    Cu[OH|AsO
     
    4
    |CrO
     
    4
    ]
    Reference: []
    Site Photo
    Evening Star Mine (Silver Queen Mine; Old Queen group), Tiger Wash, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
    © DM 06
  • Galena
    PbS
    Reference: []
  • Hydrocerussite
    Pb
     
    3
    (CO
     
    3
    )
     
    2
    (OH)
     
    2
    Reference: []
  • Kamitugaite
    AlPb(UO
     
    2
    )
     
    5
    [(OH)
     
    9
    |(PO
     
    4
    ,AsO
     
    4
    )
     
    2
    ] · 5H
     
    2
    O
    Reference: [Grant, Raymond W., Bideaux, R.A., and Williams, S.A. (2006) Minerals Added to the Arizona List 1995-2005: 5; pers. comm. Josef Vajdak to C. Lemanski, Jr. (2002).]
  • Luddenite ?
    Cu
     
    2
    Pb
     
    2
    Si
     
    5
    O
     
    14
    ·4H
     
    2
    O
    Reference: []
  • Massicot
    PbO
    Reference: []
  • Mimetite
    Pb
     
    5
    [Cl|(AsO
     
    4
    )
     
    3
    ]
    Reference: []
  • Minium
    Pb
     
    3
    O
     
    4
    Reference: []
  • Murdochite
    PbCu
     
    6
    O
     
    8-x
    (Cl,Br)
     
    2x
    x<=0.5
    Reference: []
    Site Photo
    Evening Star Mine (Silver Queen Mine; Old Queen group), Tiger Wash, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
    © DM 06
  • Phoenicochroite
    Pb
     
    2
    [O|CrO
     
    4
    ]
    Reference: [Collected in the presence of & verified by C. Lemanski, Jr.]
    Site Photo
    Evening Star Mine (Silver Queen Mine; Old Queen group), Tiger Wash, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
    © Brent Thorne
  • Quartz
    SiO
     
    2
    Reference: []
  • Shattuckite ?
    Cu
     
    5
    [(OH)
     
    2
    |(SiO
     
    3
    )
     
    4
    ]
    Reference: []
  • Silver
    Ag
    Reference: []
  • Tenorite
    CuO
    Reference: []
  • Wherryite
    Pb
     
    7
    Cu
     
    2
    (SO
     
    4
    )
     
    4
    (SiO
     
    4
    )
     
    2
    (OH)
     
    2
    Reference: []
  • Wickenburgite
    CaPb
     
    3
    Al
     
    2
    Si
     
    10
    O
     
    24
    (OH)
     
    6
    Reference: [Richard Dale collection]
    Site Photo
    Evening Star Mine (Silver Queen Mine; Old Queen group), Tiger Wash, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
    © JM. Johannet
  • Willemite
    Zn
     
    2
    [SiO
     
    4
    ]
    Reference: []
  • Wulfenite
    Pb[MoO
     
    4
    ]
    Reference: []


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