USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Starlight Group
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Mining district
- Jarbidge District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Starlight Mine, Elkoro Mines Co.
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Part of Elkoro Mines Co. Property Structure: Crater Range Alteration: Silicification Deposit: Vein, fault zone small bodies of lignitic shale & dark slaty sandstone occur locally interbedded in old rhyolites. Part of west vein system. Small amount o…
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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
- Elkoro Mines Co. (1930'S) · Historical operator
- Elkoro Mines Co. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Halloysite
- K Feldspar
- Limonite
View all 13 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Halloysite
- K Feldspar
- Limonite
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Wad
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: 41336
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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