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
Newmont's Gold Quarry mine in 2009, on the Carlin Trend
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
Carlin Unconformity
…was produced through 1964. By 2008, mines in the Carlin Trend had produced over 70 million ounces of gold, worth around $85 billion at 2010 prices. Carlin–type gold deposit Gold mining in Nevada…
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.