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Location: 32 km NW from Carlin, Nevada, United States
1655 Mountain City HighwayElkoNevada, United States89801
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Barrick is the operator of the Nevada Gold Mines LLC joint venture and owns 61.5%, with Newmont owning the remaining 38.5% of the joint venture.
The mineral deposits along the Carlin Trend form a suite of deposits known as Carlin-type. Carlin deposits comprise stratabound disseminated gold mineralization hosted by Silurian-Devonian carbonate rocks that have been metamorphosed to varying extents. The deposits are hydrothermal in origin and are usually structurally controlled.Lithologic units include the typical Carlin lower plate stratigraphy of the Ordovician Hanson Creek Formation (Ohc), Silurian/Devonian Roberts Mountains Formation (SDrm), Devonian Popovich Formation (Dp), Devonian Rodeo Creek Formation (Drc), and upper plate Ordovician Vinini Formation (Ov). The Devonian Popovich Formation consists of sub-units Upper Mud (DpUM), Soft Sediment Deformation (DpSSD), Planar (DpPL), and Wispy (DpWS). A series of igneous dikes intrude the sediments and have been identified as lamprophyres, biotite-feldspar porphyries, and granodiorite. These units are uncomformably overlain by the upper plate Ordovician Vinini Formation.Mineralization, primarily hosted in the Devonian Popovich Formation (Dp), is bound on the west by the Castle Reef Fault (CRF) and restricted to the east by the Eastern Dike Swarm (EDS). This structurally controlled system follows near vertical structural fabrics and crosses stratigraphic boundaries. The highest gold values are located adjacent to, or within, the steeply dipping Big Green Dike (BGD), Castle Reef Intrusive (CRI), and Eastern Dike Swarm (EDS). These intrusive filled structures appear to be the main conduits for Exodus gold mineralization. Sediment hosted mineralization appears to have no correlation with a specific alteration type. Mineralization also occurs on the footwall side of the CRF in the lower Silurian/Devonian Roberts Mountains Formation and upper Ordovician Hanson Creek Formation.
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