Silver Star Property

Site Name

Primary: Silver Star Property
Secondary: Sunset Claims
Secondary: Sunset Mine
Secondary: Kernick Mine
Secondary: Cimarron Minerals prospect

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Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Antimony

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Location

State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Silver Star District

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Land Status

Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.

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Holdings

Not available

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Workings

Not available

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Ownership

Owner Name: Cimarron Minerals, Ltd.
Info Year: 2000

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Production

Not available

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Epithermal gold-silver
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y

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Physiography

Not available

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Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Epithermal vein, Comstock

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Orebody

Form: tabular

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Structure

Not available

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Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Stibnite is oxidized to white and yellow antimony oxide

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Rocks

Name: Quartzite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Middle Triassic

Name: Andesite
Role: Host
Description: altered
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Tertiary

Name: Felsic Volcanic Rock
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Middle Triassic

Name: Intermediate Volcanic Rock
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Middle Triassic

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Analytical Data

Not available

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Materials

Ore: Gold
Ore: Stibnite
Gangue: Quartz

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Comments

Comment (Commodity): Ore Materials: gold, stibnite

Comment (Identification): The Silver Star property covers area between the historic Kernick and Sunset mines for which earlier records exist. The current Silver Star property record includes all pertinent material from earlier records M035401, M035391, M035987, and M035976 as well as new material.

Comment (Location): The Silver Star property is located a half mile southeast of the Triumph Mine in the old Camp Douglas (Silver Star) District, on the north flank of the Excelsior Mountains.

Comment (Workings): Old mines were developed by adits, prospect pits, and a glory hole.

Comment (Commodity): Gangue Materials: gangue is composed of vuggy quartz

Comment (Development): Silver Star district mining activity was centered in the Camp Douglas area between 1893 and 1903. Many of the early ines were antimony mines. In 1997, Cimarron Minerals Inc. completed a small trenching program and an I.P. survey over the Maryann Basin and Mega anomaly portions of the Sunset Claim property, in the ilver Star District west of the town of Mina. Pallaum Minerals planned a program of reverse circulation drilling on these and other gold targets centered in and around the Maryann Basin. Earlier work in the district had outlined an estimated 60,000 oz of gold resource in several zones between the old Sunset and Kernick Mines. In 1998, under the terms of an exploration agreement with Cimarron Minerals Ltd., Hecla Mining Co. began a 5,000-foot reverse-circulation drilling program at Cimarron?s Sunset Gold Property. Three to four angle holes are planned to test a surface rock geochemical gold anomaly coincident with an induced polarization (IP) anomaly along the north-trending Maryann Basin structures. Epithermal gold-silver mineralization is hosted by intermediate to felsic Tertiary volcanic rocks at the Sunset Property. May 1, 2000 Cimarron became Disc Factories Corp. and left the minerals industry.

Comment (Economic Factors): In 1997 reported resource for the Silver Star project was one million tons of material grading 0.06 ounces of gold per ton, for a total of about 60,000 contained ounces of gold.

Comment (Deposit): In general, mineralization in the Silver Star District consists of a series of veins averaging 4 feet wide and traceable for up to a mile; cutting metavolcanic rocks of the Excelsior Formation as well as altered Tertiary andesitic rock. Vein ore occurs as pods and lenses in brecciated, bleached, silicified andesitic tuff. Veins strike southeast to east and dip about 45 degrees south. Oxidized ores contain silver minerals with associated cerussite, smithsonite, antimony oxides and copper carbonates; the unoxidized ore consists of stibnite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite. In some veins, free gold is present in crushed, hydrothermally altered andesitic rock.

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References

Reference (Deposit): Garside, 1979

Reference (Deposit): Giancola, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

Reference (Deposit): Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, MI-1997-MI-1998

Reference (Deposit): Pallaum Minerals press release, 4/25/97.

Reference (Deposit): Cimarron Minerals Ltd. news release, 12/15/98.

Reference (Deposit): Lawrence, E.F., 1963, Antimony Deposits of Nevada, Nev. Bureau of Mines, Bull. 61

Reference (Deposit): Garside, L. J., 1973 , Radioactive Mineral Occurences in Nevada, Nev. Bur. Mines and Geology, Bull. 81.

Reference (Deposit): Cimarron Minerals, Ltd., 1998, 2000

Reference (Deposit): Davis and Tingley, 1999

Reference (Deposit): Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States; Part A, Database description and analysis; part B, Digital database: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-206, 33 p., one 3.5 inch diskette.

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Nevada Gold

Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.