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With the current contents of the Queue API topic in doc at http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--system--system.queue.inc/group... it is impossible to guess that core also includes a way to schedule workers to consume the contents of the queue on cron.
This probably means something like an @ingroup queue
on the hook_queue_info_[alter] entries in system.api.php