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White Star Mine (White Star group; White Star Silver group; Crystal), Petty Butte, South Fork Silver District, West Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA

Latitude: 40°31'18"N
Longitude: 122°33'52"W

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A former lode Ag-Au-Pb-Zn-Cu mine located in sec. 20, T31N, R6W, MDM, 1.2 km (4,100 feet) WNW of Petty Butte (coordinates of record), along Andrews Creek. Alternate coordinates provided in MRDS: 40°30'56"N, 122°34'24"W (probably less accurate since coordinates provided below place the mine on the creek). Production years were 1891-1898, 1918-1919 and 1930. MRDS database stated accuracy for this location is 1,000 meters.

Mineralization is a vein deposit hosted in diorite. The ore body dips SE at a thickness of 1.52 meters. Local rocks include Mesozoic granitic rocks, unit 5 (Klamath Mountains).

Workings include underground openings. The deposit was developed by a 200 foot adit with several hundred feet of drift.

Production data are found in: Goodwin, J. G. (1957): 696 - 697.

Some ore was shipped to Selby in 1922. It contained 1.8% Pb, 13.3% Zn, 150 oz./ton Ag and 0.2 oz/ton Au.

Mineral List

Chalcopyrite
Freibergite

Galena
Pyrite

Silver
Sphalerite

Tetrahedrite

7 entries listed. 7 valid minerals.

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References

Goodwin, Joseph Grant (1957) Lead and zinc in California. California Journal of Mines and Geology, Division of Mines (Report 53): 53(3&4): 696-697.

Albers, J.P. & C.H. Sandberg (1965), Economic geology of the French Gulch quadrangle: California Division Mines & Geology Special Report 85:
31-32.

Lydon, Philip Andrew and O’Brien, J.C. (1974) Mines and mineral resources of Shasta County, California. California Division of Mines and Geology County Report 6, 154 pp.: 73-75.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 48, 134-135.

USGS (2005), Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS): U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, loc. file ID #10033893, 10077572 & 10140802.

U.S. Bureau of Mines, Minerals Availability System (MAS) file ID #0060890

USGS French Gulch, California, quadrangle topo map.

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