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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 4: Geology of Gold Deposits at the Marigold Mine, Battle Mountain District, Nevada
Author(s)
Matthew T. Fithian
SSR Mining Inc., Marigold Mine, P.O. Box 160, Valmy, Nevada 89438
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Matthew T. Fithian
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Elizabeth A. Holley
Department of Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1600 Illinois Street, Golden, Colorado 80401
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Elizabeth A. Holley
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Nigel M. Kelly
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2200 Colorado Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80309
Nigel M. Kelly
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Published:January 01, 2018
Abstract
The Marigold Au deposits are located in the Battle Mountain mining district at the northern end of Nevada’s Battle Mountain-Eureka trend. The Marigold deposits currently make up the second largest Au accumulation in the district with over 320 tonnes (10.35 Moz) of Au in oxidized rock in a N-trending series of mineralized zones approximately 7.5 km long. Ore is hosted primarily in oxidized Paleozoic siliciclastic rocks between the Roberts Mountain and Golconda thrusts. Most of the ore occurs in quartzite of the Ordovician Valmy Formation. Higher grades but lower tonnages of ore are present in the overlying Pennsylvanian-Permian Antler...
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- absolute age
- Ar/Ar
- argillite
- arsenides
- carlin-type deposits
- Cenozoic
- clastic rocks
- conglomerate
- Cretaceous
- dates
- Eocene
- Eureka County Nevada
- Eureka Nevada
- faults
- gersdorffite
- gold
- gold ores
- granites
- host rocks
- igneous rocks
- Jurassic
- Mesozoic
- metal ores
- metals
- metasomatism
- mineral deposits, genesis
- monzogranite
- nesosilicates
- Nevada
- orthosilicates
- Paleogene
- plutonic rocks
- pyrite
- pyritization
- quartz monzonite
- reserves
- Roberts Mountains
- sedimentary rocks
- silicates
- silicification
- sulfantimonites
- sulfarsenites
- sulfides
- sulfosalts
- tennantite
- Tertiary
- tetrahedrite
- thrust faults
- U/Pb
- United States
- zircon
- zircon group
- Battle Formation
- Golconda Fault
- Edna Mountain Formation
- Antler Peak Limestone
- Battle Mountain mining district
- Marigold Mine
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