Star-Morning Mine

The Star-Morning Mine is a lead, silver, and zinc mine located in Shoshone county, Idaho at an elevation of 5,325 feet.

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Site Name

Primary: Star-Morning Mine
Secondary: Morning Mine
Secondary: Star Mine
Secondary: You Like Mine

Commodity

Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Primary: Zinc
Secondary: Copper
Tertiary: Gold

Location

State: Idaho
County: Shoshone
District: Hunter

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.

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Type: Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: Sullivan Mining Co.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Kellogg, Idaho
Years: 1924 - 1956

Owner Name: Sullivan Mining Co.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Kellogg, Idaho
Years: 1916 - 1924

Owner Name: Star Mining Co.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Spokane, Washington
Years: 1900 - 1924

Owner Name: You Like Mining Association (H&K Lease)
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Mullan, Idaho
Years: 1922 - 1929

Owner Name: You Like Mining Co.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Mullan, Idaho
Years: 1891 - 1905

Owner Name: Star Phoenix Mining Co.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Wallace, Idaho
Years: 1989 - 1990

Owner Name: Star-Morning Mining Co.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Wallace, Idaho
Years: 1984 - 1985

Owner Name: Hecla Mining Co.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Years: 1966 -

Owner Name: Bunker Hill Co.
Percent: 70.00
Home Office: Kellogg, Idaho
Years: 1961 - 1966

Owner Name: Hecla Mining Co.
Percent: 30.00
Home Office: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Years: 1961 - 1966

Owner Name: American Smelting & Refining Co.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: New York
Years: 1953 - 1966

Owner Name: H&K Lease (Grouse Lease)
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Mullan, Idaho
Years: 1929 - 1938

Owner Name: Sheridan Leasing Co.
Percent: 100.0
Years: 1923 - 1929

Owner Name: Federal Mining & Smelting Co.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: New York
Years: 1905 - 1953

Owner Name: Peter Larson & Thomas Greenough
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Mullan, Idaho
Years: 1897 - 1905

Owner Name: Peter Larson & Thomas Greenough
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Mullan, Idaho
Years: 1895 - 1897

Owner Name: D.B. Huntley
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Mullan, Idaho
Years: 1894 - 1894

Owner Name: Morning Mining & Concentrating Co.
Percent: 100.0
Years: 1894 -

Owner Name: Morning Mining Co
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Years: 1891 - 1894

Owner Name: Warren Hussey
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Mullan, Idaho
Years: 1886 - 1891

Production

Year: 2005
Time Period: 1925-1990
Mined: 9586325.000 mt
Material type: Star and Star-Morning Mine Production
Year: 2005
Time Period: 1895-1958
Mined: 13371423.000 mt
Material type: Morning Mine Cumulative Production

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: HYDROTHERMAL VEIN AND REPLACEMENT
Plant Type: Beneficiation (Mill)
Plant Subtype: Flotation
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Filled Stopes - Horiz Cut and Fill W/Tailings
Milling Method: Flotation
Year First Production: 1887
Year Last Production: 1990
Discovery Year: 1884
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: L

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Northern Rocky Mountains
Physiographic Detail: Bitterroot Mountains - Coeur D'Alene Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Polymetallic veins

Orebody

Name: North Silver Vein
Form: PINCH AND SWELL

Name: Motor Barn Vein
Form: PINCH AND SWELL

Name: South Noonday Vein
Form: PINCH AND SWELL

Name: Noonday Vein
Form: PINCH AND SWELL

Name: Midnight Vein
Form: PINCH AND SWELL

Name: Skip Pocket (East Morning) Vein
Form: PINCH AND SWELL

Name: Wilkie Vein
Form: PINCH AND SWELL

Name: East Noonday Vein
Form: PINCH AND SWELL

Name: Star-Morning Vein
Form: PINCH AND SWELL

Name: Grouse Vein
Form: PINCH AND SWELL

Name: You Like Vein
Form: PINCH AND SWELL

Structure

Type: R
Description: Osburn Fault (WNW) to south.

Type: R
Description: Star-Morning Fault, a feather joint off a shear plane complementary to the Osburn Fault.

Type: R
Description: Anticline (WNW) - veins in south upright limb.

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Zone of disseminated siderite extends 10s to 100s of meters out from the veins, passing into a siderite-ankerite zone up to 10s of meters wide, and then into a zone of ankerite-calcite 100s of meters wide.

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Sericitization; Chlorite; Biotite; Siderite

Rocks

Name: Quartzite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic

Name: Quartzite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic

Name: Quartzite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Galena
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Siderite
Gangue: Magnetite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Barite
Gangue: Pyrrhotite
Gangue: Ankerite
Gangue: Biotite
Gangue: Chlorite
Gangue: Sericite
Gangue: Specularite
Gangue: Marcasite
Trace: Plattnerite
Trace: Silver
Trace: Cerussite
Trace: Pyromorphite
Trace: Polybasite
Trace: Pyrargyrite

Comments

Comment (Development): The Star claim was located in 1886 by Thomas Greenough and Clarence Cunningham on a western extension of the Morning vein.

Comment (Production): Star and Star-Morning Mine production compiled from Bunker Hill Co. records, Hecla Mining Co. annual reports, and other sources.

Comment (Workings): Morning Adits Nos. 1 to 4 caved and inaccessible by 1912. The Morning No. 5 Adit level is the zero level of the Morning mine and equivalent to the 1700 level of the Star mine. Morning No. 6 Adit level is Morning 600 level and Star 2500 level. Morning workings connected with Star via Star 2900 and 4000 level crosscuts.

Comment (Orebody): Mineralization extends below bottom (8300 foot Star) level.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): The Star-Morning vein on Morning ground is depleted, but extends below the lowest level in the Star Mine. Substantial resources remain in subsidiary veins such as the Noonday.

Comment (Development): The modern Star-Morning mine is a unitization of the Morning and Star Mines effected in 1961. At the time of unitization, the Morning consisted of 44 patented and 14 unpatented claims, including the old Grouse, Midnight, and You Like Groups. The Star Group in 1971 consisted of 30 patented claims.

Comment (Production): Morning mine production compiled from annual reports and records of Federal Mining & Smelting Co., Asarco, and other sources.

References

Reference (Development): Dalton, M.P., 1930, Milling methods and costs at the Morning concentrator of the Federal Mining & Smelting Co., Mullan, Idaho: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 6587, 11 p.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): Hecla Mining Co., 1981, Annual report

Reference (Production): Federal Mining & Smelting Co., 1912-1952, Annual report to stockholders

Reference (Development): Reynolds, John R., 1956, Mining methods and costs at the Morning mine, American Smelting & Refining Co., Shoshone County, Idaho: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 7743, 40 p.

Reference (Deposit): Hershey, O.H., 1920, Report on Star and Morning mines for the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Smelting Co.

Reference (Geology): Constantonopoulos, J., and Larson, P.B., 1991, Oxygen and hydrogen isotope geochemistry of the Star-Morning mine, Coeur d'Alene mining district, Idaho: Geology, v. 19, p. 131-134.

Reference (Geology): Calkins, F.C., and Jones, E.L., Jr., 1914, Economic geology of the region around Mullan, Idaho, and Saltese, Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 540-E, p. 167-211.

Reference (Geology): 6) Ransome, F. L., AND Calkins, F. C., 1908 , The geology and ore deposits of the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 62 , 203 p.

Reference (Geology): Fryklund, V. C., Jr., 1964 , Ore Deposits of the Coeur d'Alene district, Shoshone County, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 445 , 103 p.

Reference (Deposit): Umpleby, J. B., and Jones, F. L., Jr., 1923 , Geology and ore deposits of Shoshone County, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 732, 156 p.

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