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White Star Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Talc-Soapstone, Clay
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10104107
MRDS ID M241972
Record type Site
Current site name White Star Mine
Alternate or previous names White Star No. 1 Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.70259, 37.41773 (WGS84)
Elevation 2096
Relative position 2.1 MILES BY ROAD SOUTH OF THE PALMETTO SMELTER RUINS ON NEVADA HIGHWAY 3

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sylvania Mountains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 038E 13 E2 OF E2 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary
Clay Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TALC-RICH ORE IS LT GREENISH GREY, VERY FINE-GRAINED WITH TRACES OF CHLORITE AND CALCITE. CHLORITE-RICH ORE IS COMPOSED OF GREENISH-GRAY FINE GRAINED CHLORITE WITH TRACE TO MODERATE TALC; SMALL AMOUNTS OF QUARTZ, CALCITE AND DOLOMITE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Ore
Talc Ore
Calcite Gangue
Dolomite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Reed Dolomite
    Rock description Reed Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.70259, 37.41773
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 259.08M
    Width 91.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1941
Discoverer Gus Krause

Mining district

District name Sylvania (Green Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Henry Nichols (1970'S)

Comments on the workings information

  • IN THE SOUTHERN AREA, STOPING TO 15 FT WAS DONE FROM THE SURFACE FOR 50 FT ALONG RIDGE. IN CENTRAL AREA A 70-FT SQUARE AREA HAS BEEN STRIPPED WITH LESS EXTENSIVE STRIPPING NEARBY AND A 50-FT ADIT. IN THE NORTHERN AREA 8 CUTS AND ADITS WERE DUG ON TALCOSE BODIES OVER 240 FT.

Comments on development

  • KRAUSE DEVELOPED AND MINED THE ORE BODIES IN THE EARLY AND MID-1940'S. THE MINE HAS BEEN MAINLY INACTIVE SINCE THEN, THE CLAIM BEING HELD BY HENRY NICHOLS IN RECENT YEARS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, NBMG BULL, P. 46-47

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1974, P. 46.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TALCOSE BODIES OCCUR MAINLY IN 3 AREAS IN THE NORTH, CENTRAL, AND SOUTH PARTS OF AN AREA 850 FT BY 300 FT. WORKINGS EXPOSE CHLORITE VEINS IN NORTHERN AREA. OREBODIES IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL AREAS ARE MAINLY TALC WHILE THOSE IN NORTH AND CENTRAL STRIPPED AREAS ARE MAINLY CHLORITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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