Mine detail: Silver Star Extension Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 37.61029, -107.77758

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Limonite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Last production ended: 1925

Geology

Host rock:Twilight Gneiss
Host type:Gneiss
Structure:San Juan Uplift, Needle Mtns Uplift
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:Fe Oxidation

References

MRDSD010869
DEP10014200
Reference{Deposit:: SCOTT, D.C., 1983, MINERAL INVESTIGATION OF THE WEST NEEDLE WILDERNESS STUDY AREA AND THE BLM WEST NEEDLE CONTIGUOUS WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, LA PLATA AND SAN JUA COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM MLA 35-83, P. 7, 19.}{Deposit:: BARKER, FRED, 1969, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE NEEDLE MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 644-A.}{Deposit:: CROSS, WHITMAN, AND HOLE, A.D., 1910, DESCRIPTION OF THE ENGINEER MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE: USGS FOLIO 171.}
ReporterSchwochow, Stephen D.