Silver Star Property, Silver Star Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Silver Star Property | Property |
| Silver Star Mining District | Mining District |
| Mineral County | County |
| Nevada | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
38° 20' 3'' North , 118° 10' 42'' West
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Other/historical names associated with this locality:
Sunset Claims; Sunset Mine; Kernick Mine; Cimarron Minerals prospect
Alteration: Stibnite is oxidized to white and yellow antimony oxide
Commodity: Ore Materials: gold, stibnite Gangue Materials: gangue is composed of vuggy quartz
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.
Deposit type: Epithermal vein, Comstock
Development: Silver Star district mining activity was centered in the Camp Douglas area between 1893 and 1903. Many of the early mines 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 Silver 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.
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| β Gold Formula: Au Reference: U.S. Geological Survey (2005) Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. |
| β Quartz Formula: SiO2 Reference: U.S. Geological Survey (2005) Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. |
| β Stibnite Formula: Sb2S3 Localities: Reference: U.S. Geological Survey (2005) Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. |
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| β | Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
| β | Stibnite | 2.DB.05 | Sb2S3 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| β | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
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| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | β Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | β Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | β Stibnite | Sb2S3 |
| Sb | Antimony | |
| Sb | β Stibnite | Sb2S3 |
| Au | Gold | |
| Au | β Gold | Au |
References
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Year (asc) Year (desc) Author (A-Z) Author (Z-A)Lawrence, E.F., (1963), Antimony Deposits of Nevada, Nev. Bureau of Mines, Bull. 61
Garside, L. J., (1973) , Radioactive Mineral Occurences in Nevada, Nev. Bur. Mines and Geology, Bull. 81.
Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., (1998), Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States; Part A, Database description and analysis; part B, Digital database: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-206, 33 p., one 3.5 inch diskette.
Cimarron Minerals, Ltd., (1998), 2000
Giancola, (1996), 1997, 1998, 1999
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