Silver Star

The Silver Star is a silver mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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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

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Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Greenstone
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic

Analytical Data

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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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