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Gold Star Mine (Golden Star Mine; Lone Star Mine), Mineral Park Mining District, Wallapai Mining District, Cerbat Mountains (Cerbat Range), Mohave County, Arizona, USAi
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Gold Star Mine (Golden Star Mine; Lone Star Mine)Mine
Mineral Park Mining DistrictMining District
Wallapai Mining DistrictMining District
Cerbat Mountains (Cerbat Range)Mountain Range
Mohave CountyCounty
ArizonaState
USACountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
35° 22' 56'' North , 114° 8' 29'' West
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Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Chloride271 (2011)6.4km
So-Hi477 (2017)14.4km
New Kingman-Butler12,134 (2011)16.4km
Clacks Canyon173 (2017)19.0km
Golden Valley8,370 (2011)19.1km
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ClubLocationDistance
Mohave County GemstonersKingman, Arizona23km
Silvery Colorado River Rock ClubBullhead City, Arizona47km
Mindat Locality ID:
37282
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:37282:1
GUID (UUID V4):
52c66ee5-b5b2-4339-bb1f-4add018a1c6a
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
Hagey mining claims; Cornwall Mine


A former Ag-Au-Pb-As-pyrite occurrence/mine located in the SE¼SW¼NW¼ sec. 18, T23N, R17W, G&SRM, 4 miles SE of Chloride, on Bureau of Land Management administered land. Owned by Lane Smith, Arizona (1963). Produced during the period 1870-1902. Output was reported to have been the largest in the region. The USGS MRDS database stated accuracy for this locality is 100 meters.

GOLDEN STAR MINE.

The Golden Star (formerly Lone Star) mine is in the northeastern part of the district, about a mile northeast of Mineral Park, a short distance below the Windy Point mine,, at an elevation of about 4,700 feet. It is situated on open, sloping, somewhat hilly ground. The mine was located in 1870 and soon became an important producer of rich ore. It continued to be prominent till 1902, when the ore seems to have fallen off in grade. The mine is now dismantled of all surface equipments. Its output during much of this period is said to have been the largest in the region.

The mine was first owned by W. F. Grounds, now of Hackberry, who took out much rich ore. It was later owned by Fred Harter and Isaac Conkey, of Mineral Park. The present owners, besides Mr. Conkey, are W. G. Blakely, C. D. M. Gaddis, and Doc. Hamilton, all of Kingman.

The mine is developed principally by a 300-foot shaft and two levels, each containing about 300 feet of drift, and the ore is said to be stoped out from the surface down to the first level.

The country rock is principally black amphibolite schist, mica schist, and gneissoid biotite granite. The fissure containing the deposits is 2 to 4 feet in width, all of which is said to consist of lowgrade ore. It strikes in general west northwest and dips about 65° S. At the shaft the strike is east and west, but a short distance east of the shaft the vein curves to the north and is said to split. At the surface west of the shaft it is 2-| to 3 feet thick, is dark and ironstained, is parallel streaked or banded, and, like the Windy Point vein, is very arsenical.

The ore, like that of the Windy Point, is sulphide ore. It contains argentite, ruby silver, native silver, gold, and a trace of lead, all in association with arsenopyrite and pyrite. The ore shoot ranges from a few inches to 20 inches in thickness. The ore is mostly of high grade, but that in the deeper part of the mine is. reported to be too base or refractory to be handled advantageously with methods employed a decade ago. In former times some of the ore was shipped to Swansea, Wales.


Mineralization is a polymetallic deposit hosted in mica schist and granite. The ore body strikes N60W and dips 65S at a width of 1.22 meters (4 feet). The mineralization is associated with Late Cretaceous porphyry intrusion. The vein is very arsenical. Associated rocks include Neoproterozoic granite. Local rocks include Early Proterozoic granitic rocks.

Regional geologic structures include Precambrian schistosity N30E; and, Late Cretaceous veins, fissures, dikes NW to NNW regionally.

Workings include unspecified underground openings with a length of 182.88 meters and an overall depth of 91.44 meters.

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7 valid minerals.

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Group 1 - Elements
Silver1.AA.05Ag
Gold1.AA.05Au
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
Acanthite2.BA.35Ag2S
Pyrite2.EB.05aFeS2
Arsenopyrite2.EB.20FeAsS
Proustite2.GA.05Ag3AsS3
Pyrargyrite2.GA.05Ag3SbS3

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SSulfur
S AcanthiteAg2S
S ArsenopyriteFeAsS
S ProustiteAg3AsS3
S PyrargyriteAg3SbS3
S PyriteFeS2
FeIron
Fe ArsenopyriteFeAsS
Fe PyriteFeS2
AsArsenic
As ArsenopyriteFeAsS
As ProustiteAg3AsS3
AgSilver
Ag AcanthiteAg2S
Ag ProustiteAg3AsS3
Ag PyrargyriteAg3SbS3
Ag SilverAg
SbAntimony
Sb PyrargyriteAg3SbS3
AuGold
Au GoldAu

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