This Star property is located directly west of Ainsworth at an elevation of 1036 metres and may be reached by about 9.6 kilometres of road from the village. The portals of the tunnels are on the Sunlight claims, the workings extending into the Star claim to the west.

Development work on the Sunlight claim was begun in 1895 and the first shipment of ore was made the following year. The Star claim was Crown-granted to Messrs. Strobeck and Hardie in 1898. The work continued intermittently through 1910. The workings at this time consisted of about 229 metres of tunnel, 91 metres of crosscuts and 30.5 metres of shaft.

The mine was closed from 1910 until 1945 when it was acquired by A.G. Norcross of Nelson. By 1950 the workings consisted of two adits, 56 metres apart vertically, the upper one 76 metres long, the lower one about 244 metres long. A 15 metre sub level is connected by a 15 raise to the upper adit and also to the surface by an old shaft.

During 1951-52 Privateer Base Metals Ltd. held an option on the property and completed a diamond drilling program amounting to 1067 metres in 30 holes. The purpose of this was to trace the continuation of the fault to the northwest and to explore both walls of the fault zone for further replacement deposits. Very little ore was found so the option was dropped. In 1955, the owner, A.G. Norcross, did some stoping in the old workings.

Argillites, limestones and schists of the Mississippian to Lower Permian Milford Group are intruded by Upper Triassic to Middle Jurassic quartz diorite sheets and lamprophyre dykes. The ore occurs in a cross fault zone 30 to 60 centimetres wide, that is filled with coarsely crystalline calcite. Galena and sphalerite occur in equal proportions in small veins in the calcite. Replacement ore is found locally in the limestone wallrocks.

A total of 726 tonnes of ore was mined in 5 years between 1949 and 1956 (inclusive). From this, 167,893 grams of silver, 65,336 kilograms of lead, 55,124 kilograms of zinc and 559 grams of gold were recovered.