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Silver Star Property

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Antimony
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10310572
MRDS ID M035401
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Star Property
Alternate or previous names Sunset Claims, Sunset Mine, Kernick Mine, Cimarron Minerals prospect
Related records 10037488

Comments on the site identification

  • The Silver Star property covers area between the historic Kernick and Sunset mines for which earlier records exist. The current Silver Star property record includes all pertinent material from earlier records M035401, M035391, M035987, and M035976 as well as new material.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.17844, 38.33437 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position The Silver Star property is located about 6 miles southwest of the town of Mina.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Camp Douglas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006N 034E 34 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • The Silver Star property is located a half mile southeast of the Triumph Mine in the old Camp Douglas (Silver Star) District, on the north flank of the Excelsior Mountains.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Antimony Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Ore Materials: gold, stibnite
  • Gangue Materials: gangue is composed of vuggy quartz

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Stibnite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Stibnite is oxidized to white and yellow antimony oxide

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock
    Rock unit name Excelsior Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Middle Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock
    Rock unit name Excelsior Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Middle Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock type qualifier altered
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Excelsior Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Middle Triassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.17844, 38.33437
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form tabular

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes

Mining district

District name Silver Star District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Cimarron Minerals, Ltd.
    Year 2000

Comments on the workings information

  • Old mines were developed by adits, prospect pits, and a glory hole.

Comments on other economic factors

  • In 1997 reported resource for the Silver Star project was one million tons of material grading 0.06 ounces of gold per ton, for a total of about 60,000 contained ounces of gold.

Comments on development

  • Silver Star district mining activity was centered in the Camp Douglas area between 1893 and 1903. Many of the early ines were antimony mines.
    In 1997, Cimarron Minerals Inc. completed a small trenching program and an I.P. survey over the Maryann Basin and Mega anomaly portions of the Sunset Claim property, in the ilver Star District west of the town of Mina. Pallaum Minerals planned a program of reverse circulation drilling on these and other gold targets centered in and around the Maryann Basin. Earlier work in the district had outlined an estimated 60,000 oz of gold resource in several zones between the old Sunset and Kernick Mines.
    In 1998, under the terms of an exploration agreement with Cimarron Minerals Ltd., Hecla Mining Co. began a 5,000-foot reverse-circulation drilling program at Cimarron?s Sunset Gold Property. Three to four angle holes are planned to test a surface rock geochemical gold anomaly coincident with an induced polarization (IP) anomaly along the north-trending Maryann Basin structures. Epithermal gold-silver mineralization is hosted by intermediate to felsic Tertiary volcanic rocks at the Sunset Property.
    May 1, 2000 Cimarron became Disc Factories Corp. and left the minerals industry.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit In general, mineralization in the Silver Star District consists of a series of veins averaging 4 feet wide and traceable for up to a mile; cutting metavolcanic rocks of the Excelsior Formation as well as altered Tertiary andesitic rock. Vein ore occurs as pods and lenses in brecciated, bleached, silicified andesitic tuff. Veins strike southeast to east and dip about 45 degrees south. Oxidized ores contain silver minerals with associated cerussite, smithsonite, antimony oxides and copper carbonates; the unoxidized ore consists of stibnite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite. In some veins, free gold is present in crushed, hydrothermally altered andesitic rock.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-2006 LaPointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Editor 01-SEP-2007 Schruben, Paul G. U.S. Geological Survey Converted from S&A FileMaker format to Oracle. Edit checks on rocks, units, and ages with Geolex search, and other fields.

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