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White Star Mine

Creede, Colorado

37.8912°N 106.9455°W

Mine Overview

The White Star Mine is near Creede, Colorado. Historically the site has been associated with the Creed Mining District which is now part of the Rio Grande National Forest. The White Star Mine was closed at the time of data entry with no known plans to re-open. Production size when active was considered to be small. Mine operations consist of underground workings. There is one known shaft. Subsurface depth reaches a maximum of 366 meters (1,200 feet). The ore mined is composed of chalcopyrite, sphalerite and pyrite with waste material consisting primarily of barite, wad and chlorite. Associated rock in this area is rhyolite from the Oligocene epoch 33.90 to 23.03 million years ago. The Southern Rocky Mountains physiographic province of the Rocky Mountain System characterize the geomorphology of the surrounding area.

Site identification and general characteristics. Learn about USGS mines.

  • Gold, Lead, and Silver Primary Commodity
  • Copper Secondary Commodity
  • Site Record Type?
  • Mine Development Status?
  • Underground Operation Type?
  • Ore Mineral In Place Discovery Method?
  • Small Production Size?
  • Metallic Site Commodity Type?
  • Small Mine Size?
White Star Mine Near Creede, Colorado

White Star Mine Near Creede, Colorado

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Mine Names

  1. Name? Status?
  2. White Star Mine Current
  3. White Star Current

Owner Name and Address

S. Smith

Commodities

Additional textual information about a site or mine.

  1. Commodity Type Importance
  2. Gold Metallic Primary
  3. Lead Metallic Primary
  4. Silver Metallic Primary
  5. Zinc Metallic Primary
  6. Copper Metallic Tertiary

Deposit

ATTITUDE OF AMETHYST FAULT ON TUNNEL LEVEL.

Location Info

  1. Continent Country State County
  2. North America The United States Colorado Mineral

Notes

S-T-R, LAT-LONG, AND ELEV DETERMINED FROM EMMONS AND LARSEN'S (1923) TOPO MAP (1:24, 000 ), MINE OR CLAIM LIES ABOVE W. WILLOW CREEK BETW. PARK REGENT AND HAPPY THOUGHT MINES; INFO FROM LAND. ST : (1976).

Meridian / Township / Range Description

  1. Meridian? Township? Section? Aliquot?
  2. New Mexico Meridian T.42N R.1W Sec. 14 NE

Land Status

Land status information.

  1. Land Status? Admin Area?
  2. National Forest -
  3. Private -

Mining Districts

Formal or informal mining district names.

  1. District
  2. Creed Mining District

Workings

Workings at the site.

Underground Workings #1

  • Type: Underground
  • Sub Surface Depth: 365.76 Meters

Workings

WORKINGS EXTEND ABOUT 750 FEET ALONG AMETHYST FAULT. INCLUDES PART OF NELSON-WOOSTER-HUMPHREYS TUNNEL ABOUT 1200 FEET BELOW APEX. NEAR SOUTH END LINE, RAISE DRIVEN UP TO LEVEL II OF HAPPY THOUGHT MINE.

Concentration Process

Processes that concentrated or enriched the mineralization of the mine.

  1. Concentration Process
  2. Pressure From Stock Beneath Bachelor Caldera Reactivated Keystone Graben And Started North-To-South-Flowing, Freely Convecting Hydrothermal System Of Sulfate-Rich Solutions That Deposited Ore And Gangue Near Top Of Convecting Cell By Hypogene Enrichment Process. Boiling, With Loss Of Acid Constituents And Resulting Rise In Ph Caused Precipitation Of Ores And Formation Of Intensely Altered Sericitic Cap Above Ore. Cap Is Actually Coalescence Of Alteration Fans Spreading Upward And Outward Through More Fractured And Porous Rock In Major Fault Zones And Along Parallel And Antithetic Fractures In Hanging Wall.

Materials

Minerals or other materials present in the mine.

  1. Role? Material?
  2. Gangue/Waste Barite
  3. Gangue/Waste Chlorite
  4. Gangue/Waste Limonite
  5. Gangue/Waste Quartz
  6. Gangue/Waste Wad
  7. Ore Chalcopyrite
  8. Ore Pyrite
  9. Ore Sphalerite

Orebody

Characteristics of the ore body.

  • Strike: north 25 west
  • Dip: 55 southwest

Rocks

Geological materials at the site.

  1. Class? 1st Order Name? 2nd Order Name? 3rd Order Name? 4th Order Name? Most Specific Name? Begin Time End Time Description?
  2. Associated Rock Campbell Mountain Member Of Bachelor Mountain Rhyolite Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) Felsic Volcanic Rock Rhyolite Rhyolite Oligocene Oligocene -
  3. Host Rock Campbell Mountain Member Of Bachelor Mountain Rhyolite Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) Felsic Volcanic Rock Rhyolite Rhyolite - - -
  4. Mineralization - - - - - Miocene Miocene -

Structure

Geologic structural features affecting or characterizing the site or mine.

  1. Scale Description
  2. Local Amethyst Fault Zone; Creede Graben
  3. Regional La Garita, Creede, And Bachelor Calderas; San Juan Volcanic Field

Tectonic

Tectonic setting in which the site or deposit is situated.

  1. Setting?
  2. Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)

Physiography

Physiographic area where the resource is found.

  1. Division Province? Section
  2. Rocky Mountain System Southern Rocky Mountains -

Ore Control

Controls on emplacement of ore such as faults or other structural features.

  1. Text?
  2. Amethyst Fault And Hanging Wall Fractures

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Footnotes

* Mine bounds on map indicate the general area that a mine occupies. For an detailed map, refer to the overseeing BLM field office.

** The mine central point is based on an average of the mine's bounding box(es) and does not necessarily fall on the claim itself.

1 World-class significance is determined by total endowment of the contained commodity. This includes all past production and remaining reserves. Each commodity is considered separately and commodities cannot be combined to arrive at a significant size. The tonnage thresholds are from the mine model grade-tonnage studies. As of June 2008, many entries were classified as significant under less strict rules.

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