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Kootenay Queen Mine, Invermere, Windermere District, Golden Mining Division, British Columbia, Canadai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Kootenay Queen Mine | Mine |
| Invermere | Community |
| Windermere District | Mining District |
| Golden Mining Division | Division |
| British Columbia | Province |
| Canada | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
50° 24' 26'' North , 116° 23' 36'' West
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Invermere | 2,871 (2008) | 28.1km |
The Kootenay Queen prospect is located at an elevation of 1980 metres in a small cirque on the south side of Delphine Creek in the Golden Mining Division.
Regionally, the area is underlain by Proterozoic clastic sedimentary rocks of the Purcell and Windermere supergroups and by lower Paleozoic strata of the Beaverfoot and Mount Forster formations (Geoscience Map 1995-1).
The occurrence consists of a small adit driven for a distance of 43 metres along a 30 centimetre wide quartz vein. The vein is hosted in cream to buff dolomite of the upper dolomite member of the Mount Nelson Formation immediately below the Windermere unconformity (Open File 1990-26).
The main ore minerals are galena, tetrahedrite and sphalerite. Analyses of pure galena yielded 2400 grams per tonne silver and 65 percent lead (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1915) and tetrahedrite contains 9 to 10 weight percent silver (Open File 1990-26). The ore displays evidence of intense deformation and fine-grained polygonal galena is common.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Dolomite Formula: CaMg(CO3)2 References: |
| ⓘ Galena Formula: PbS |
| ⓘ Polybasite Formula: [Ag6Sb2S7][Ag9CuS4] |
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 References: |
| ⓘ Sphalerite Formula: ZnS |
| ⓘ 'Tetrahedrite Subgroup' Formula: Cu6(Cu4C2+2)Sb4S12S |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| ⓘ | 'Tetrahedrite Subgroup' | 2.GB.05 | Cu6(Cu4C2+2)Sb4S12S |
| ⓘ | Polybasite | 2.GB.15 | [Ag6Sb2S7][Ag9CuS4] |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Dolomite | 5.AB.10 | CaMg(CO3)2 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| C | Carbon | |
|---|---|---|
| C | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Mg | Magnesium | |
| Mg | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
| S | ⓘ Polybasite | [Ag6Sb2S7][Ag9CuS4] |
| S | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
| S | ⓘ Tetrahedrite Subgroup | Cu6(Cu4C22+)Sb4S12S |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | ⓘ Polybasite | [Ag6Sb2S7][Ag9CuS4] |
| Cu | ⓘ Tetrahedrite Subgroup | Cu6(Cu4C22+)Sb4S12S |
| Zn | Zinc | |
| Zn | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
| Ag | Silver | |
| Ag | ⓘ Polybasite | [Ag6Sb2S7][Ag9CuS4] |
| Sb | Antimony | |
| Sb | ⓘ Polybasite | [Ag6Sb2S7][Ag9CuS4] |
| Sb | ⓘ Tetrahedrite Subgroup | Cu6(Cu4C22+)Sb4S12S |
| Pb | Lead | |
| Pb | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
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| Link to British Columbia Minfile: | 082KSE033 |
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