Carlin–type gold deposit
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Carlin–type gold deposits are sediment-hosted disseminated gold deposits. These deposits are characterized by invisible gold in arsenic rich pyrite and arsenopyrite. This dissolved kind of gold is cal
Goldstrike (Post–Betze) Mine, Carlin Trend, Nevada, the largest Carlin-type deposit in the world, containing more than 35,000,000 ounces of gold.
Turquoise Ridge (Getchell Mine) gold ore, FoV ~5 /cm across. Grade ~0.35 oz Au/ton. Altered Comus fm. mud/shale with highly contorted bedding (post-depositional, soft-sediment deformation). The rock has been decalcified and weakly silicified.
Carlin Unconformity
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The Carlin Unconformity or Carlin Trend is a geologic feature in northeastern Nevada which represents a period of erosion or non-deposition likely associated with a collision between a tectonic crusta
Carlin–type gold deposit
…as it can only be found through chemical analysis. The deposit is named after the Carlin mine, the first large deposit of this type discovered in the Carlin Trend, Nevada. The Carlin type deposits show enrichment in the elements gold, arsenic, antimony, mercury, thallium and barium. This enrichment is created by…
Newmont's Gold Quarry mine in 2009, on the Carlin Trend