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Location: 270 Km N from Reno, Nevada, United States
68 St Vincent Highway Pine PointPine PointSouth Australia, Australia5571
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The Project lies within a broad region of relatively young (15Ma) volcanic rocks predominantly made up of welded flow banded rhyolite units interlayered with unwelded bedded tuffs (Bussey, 1996). The volcanic host rocks and subsequent hydrothermal activity associated with this volcanism is interpreted to be the cause of the gold mineralisation and associated large scale alteration observed at Bells.Bells has the typical geological signature of a low-sulphidation epithermal deposit which formed close to the surface. Throughout north-west Nevada, there exists other similar epithermal gold deposits (such as Midas and Sleeper) which have a documented age similar to Bells and are interpreted to be related to volcanism and hydrothermal activity from the Yellowstone “Hot Spot” (Saunders et. al., 2008).Bells is defined by a large area of alteration which has affected the volcanic host rocks and it is this alteration which initially attracted explorers to the project area. The gold mineralisation within this large alteration feature is predominantly dispersed horizontally along favourable and relatively flat lying host rocks. The current Mineral Resource estimate is based on the style of mineralisation that was the initial focus of exploration and mining. This style of mineralisation is dominated by relatively flat lying and dispersed low-grade gold mineralisation.
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