Star Point Gold/Copper Project - Overview
The Star Point project lies about 35 miles (50 kilometres) northeast of Lovelock, Nevada, about 10 miles (22 kilometres) northwest of the Spring Valley Mining District, and about 10 miles (16 kilometres) west of the Goldbanks Mining District. The target for Maestro is gold-copper mineralization and gold-only mineralization hosted in a porphyry system or within phyllites and quartz-rich sandstones of the surrounding wall rocks
Prospect pits outcrop for 5 kilometres in a north-south trend, thus prompting Maestro to stake a large seven-square mile claim block. Only limited prospect put sampling has been completed. Assay results by American Assay Labs for 30 rock chip samples include from below detection to 4.4 grams/tonne gold, 22 grams/tonne to 4.97% copper, and from 0.3 to 89.7 grams/tonne silver. Anomalous arsenic and antimony suggest the mineralization is related to a hydrothermal system, probably higher temperature, while anomalous molybdenum and very well-developed stockwork quartz veining in some of the prospect pits suggest there is a porphyry heat source for at least one of the mineralization events. Regional geologic maps have Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary intrusive stocks mapped in the region, each age of which could have had its own mineralization event and all could be overlapping at the Star Point project.
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