USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Star Peak Mine 1984
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- NBMG Sample Sites 2523, 2524
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Complexly Faulted Anticline Deposit: Ore occurs in two veins in limestone overlain by rhyolite flows. Quartz vein 0.5-1 m wide, striking N 50e, dip 40 nw, exposed for 200 m by workings and pits. Vein cuts prida ark-ose and argillite resting…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Hart, J. H. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Covellite
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Arkose
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Copper
View all 17 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Covellite
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Arkose
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Covellite
- Galena
- Limestone
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Sphalerite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 438245
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (12)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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