USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Deep Star Deposit
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Carlin Trend
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Deep Star lies along the Tuscarora Spur, a north-trending antiform. Deep Star lies 1000 ft. south of the Goldstrike intrusive and along the southern extension of the NW-trending Post fault system. The primary structural orientation associate…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Newmont Gold Co. (Newmont Mining Corp.) · Historical operator · 1996
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Gold
- Arsenopyrite
- Biotite
- Calcite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Diopside
- Diorite
View all 23 reported minerals
- Gold
- Arsenopyrite
- Biotite
- Calcite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Diopside
- Diorite
- Garnet Group
- K Feldspar
- Kaolinite
- Marcasite
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Phlogopite
- Pyrite
- Pyroxene Group
- Quartz
- Realgar
- Sericite
- Siderite
- Vesuvianite
- Wollastonite
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: 213535
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (22)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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