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Lone Star Group

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Iron, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037630
MRDS ID M035745
Record type Site
Current site name Lone Star Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.39235, 38.7852 (WGS84)
Elevation 1798
Relative position APPROX. 21 MI. NE OF HAWTHORNE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copper Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Gabbs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
011N 032E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ASSAY AVE. $3 TO $12 PER TON AU; $7 TO $20 PER TON SILVER IN 1937 . ORE AVE. 3 FT OF $16.37/TON.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Jarosite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Highly Altered Andesite-Kaolinized

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.39235, 38.7852
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE
    Strike NE
    Dip 90
    Thickness 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralized Zone Lies In Sheared Altered Andesite, With Qtz. Lenses Carrying Gold And Silver

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE IS SOFT CRUSHED QTZ. AND COUNTRY ROCK CARRYING, LIMONITE, JAROSITE AND IN SOME PLACES GYPSUM

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1908
Discoverer Mims

Mining district

District name Bovard - Rand

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner E. H. Mims
    Home office Sacramento, Ca.
    First year 1936

Comments on the production information

  • $75,000 ESTIMATE TOTAL PRODUCTION FROM MINE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 762M
    Overall depth 167.64M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 - 90 FOOT VERTICAL SHAFTS, A 500 FOOT VERT. SHAFT, 170 FOOT 80 DEGREE INCLINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FOSHAG, W. F., 1928 , ORE DEPOSITS OF THE HAWTHORNE, QUAD. (UNPUBLISHED)

  • Deposit

    SIRDEVAN, W. H., 1914 , REPORT ON THE LONE - STAR MINE, UMPUBLISHED,NEV. BUREAU OF MINES FILE

  • Production

    F ( 1 )

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GEOLOGY IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF NEV. RAND EXCEPT THAT ANDESITE BRECCIA AND RHYOLITE WERE ENCOUNTERED IN THE LOWER WORKINGS OF THE DEEPER SHAFT. MINE IS ABOUT 2000 FEET EAST AT THE LAST HOPE MINE ALONG THE SAME GRANODIORITE-ANDESITE CONTACT ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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