Mine detail: Star Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.53077, -112.19497

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver
Secondary:	Copper
Tertiary:	Iron
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Hematite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Actinolite, Biotite, Clay, Diopside, Epidote, Garnet, Talc
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Upper Bingham Mine;Butterfield Peaks
Host type:	Quartzite
Associated rock:	Bingham And Last Chance Stocks;Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite,Trachyte
Structure:	Basin And Range, Faults, Folds, Fissures And Fractures
Tectonic:	Sevier Orogenic Belt
Alteration processes:	Dolomitization, Diopsitization, Actinolitization, Biotitization, Silicification, Chloritization Etc

References

MRDS	DC12128
DEP	10102068
Reference	{Deposit:: BRAY, E.R., WILSON, J.C., 1975, GUIDE BOOK TO THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT: SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS}{Deposit:: COOK, D.R., 1961, GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT AND NORTHERN OQUIRRH MOUNTAIN, GUIDE BOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO. 16 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 145P.}{Deposit:: BUTLER, B.S., ET.AL., 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS P.P. 111, 672P.}{Deposit:: BOUTWELL, J.M., 1905, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: USGS P. P. 38, 410P.}
Reporter	Mohammad, Hasan