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Diversity in Carlin-Style Gold Deposits
Author(s)
John L. Muntean
John L. Muntean
Ralph J. Roberts Center for Research in Economic Geology, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada Reno
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Society of Economic Geologists

Volume
20
Copyright:
Society of Economic Geologists
© Society of Economic Geologists ISBN 9781629491189
ISBN electronic:
9781629491189
ISBN print:
9781629492223
Publication date:
January 01, 2018
Book Chapter
Chapter 3: Carlin on the Shelf? A Review of Sedimentary Rock-Hosted Gold Deposits and Their Settings in the Eastern Great Basin, USA
Author(s)
Moira T. Smith
Pilot Gold USA Inc., 1031 Railroad Street, Suite 110, Elko, Nevada 89801
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Moira T. Smith
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Harry E. Cook
Carbonate Geology LLC, 640 Marlin Court, Redwood City, California 94065
Harry E. Cook
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Published:January 01, 2018
Abstract
For the last several decades, gold exploration in Nevada has been strongly focused on sedimentary rock-hosted gold deposits in the Carlin, Cortez, Independence, and Getchell trends in north-central Nevada. Accordingly, less exploration activity has been directed toward the search for similar gold deposits in the eastern Great Basin, south and east of the major trends.
Deposits in the central and northern Carlin and Cortez trends are hosted primarily in Upper Devonian middle slope soft-sediment slumps and slides and base-of-slope carbonate debris flows, turbidites, and enclosing in situ fractured lime mudstones. This is in marked contrast to gold deposits in...
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- Basin and Range Province
- Cambrian
- Carboniferous
- Carlin Trend
- carlin-type deposits
- continental shelf
- Cortez Mountains
- depositional environment
- Devonian
- Elko County Nevada
- Getchell Mine
- gold
- gold ores
- Great Basin
- history
- host rocks
- Humboldt County Nevada
- Idaho
- Independence Mountains
- inner shelf
- lagoonal environment
- Lower Mississippian
- marine environment
- metal ores
- metals
- mineral deposits, genesis
- mineral exploration
- mines
- Mississippian
- Nevada
- North America
- Ordovician
- Paleozoic
- Pennsylvanian
- Pequop Mountains
- Permian
- prediction
- production
- reserves
- sedimentary rocks
- Sevier Desert
- shelf environment
- United States
- Upper Devonian
- Utah
- Goldstrike Mine
- Mercur Mine
- Black Pine Mine
- Cortez Trend
- Wells Nevada
- Kinsley Mountains
- Long Canyon Mine
- Bald Mountain-Alligator Ridge
- Barney's Canyon Mine
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