The Silver Star is a silver mine located in Alaska.
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Silver Star MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Silver Star
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Bismuth
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Antimony
Location
State: Alaska
District: Chistochina
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Greenstone
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Silver
Ore: Tetrahedrite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Sphalerite
Comments
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Thin quartz veins, containing argentiferous tetrahedrite, and subordinate galena, sphalerite and Cu-minerals in Triassic Nikolai Greenstone near contact of Jurassic granodiorite pluton.
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Active as recently as 1976.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Lode: vein
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Type of workings: surface and underground. Workings consist of two adits and open cuts. Assays showed 25 to 700 oz/ton Ag and 1 to 32 percent Cu; bismuth is a constituent of ore (Moffit and Mertie, 1923).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Moffit and Mertie, 1923
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., and Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1923, The Kotsina-Kuskulana district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 745, 149 p.
Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., Smith, J.G., Jones, D.L., and Winkler, G.R., 1978, Geologic map of the McCarthy C-8 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1418, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., Smith, J.G., Jones, D.L., and Winkler, G.R., 1978, Geologic map of the McCarthy C-8 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1418, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1976, Mineral deposits and occurrences in the McCarthy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-773-B, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.
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