Mine detail: Silver Star Mine

Previously called 'Patented Claim: Silver StarMs 1147'

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Location: Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.94557, -107.4848
dep_id: 10014750
mrds_id: D011663
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Silver
Trace mineral: Antimony
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
gangue: Quartz
ore_ctrl: Ne-Trending Fault Cutting Tuff Within Lake City Caldera
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Megabreccia Member Of Sunshine Peak Tuff
hrock_type: Rhyolite
arock_unit: Granite Of Cataract Canyon;Ash-Flow Member Of Sunshine Peak Tuff
arock_type: Quartz Monzonite,Rhyolite,Granite
Structure: San Juan Volcanic Field, San Juan Depression, San Juan-Uncompahgre Calderas, Lake City Caldera, Silverton Caldera, Eureka Graben
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
References:
  • Deposit:: BROWN, W.H., 1926, THE MINERAL ZONES OF THE WHITE CROSS DISTRICT AND NEIGHBORING DEPOSITS IN HINSDALE COUNTY, COLORADO: MINES MAG., V. 15, NO. 11, P. 5-15.
  • Deposit:: LIPMAN, P.W., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LAKE CITY CALDERA AREA, WESTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP I-962.
  • Deposit:: WOOLSEY, L.H., 1907, LAKE FORK EXTENSION OF THE SILVERTON MINING AREA, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 315, P. 26-309
  • Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 1147
  • Deposit:: KRASOWSKI, D.J., 1976, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF BURROWS PARK, HINSDALE COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO STATE UNIV. M. SC. THESIS, 111 P.
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