Gold mining in Nevada
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Gold mining in Nevada, a state of the United States, is a major industry, and one of the largest sources of gold in the world. In 2018 Nevada produced 5,581,160 troy ounces, representing 78% of US gol
Rawhide, Nevada, 1915
Goldstrike mine (Betz-Post) Mine in the Carlin Trend, the largest Carlin-type deposit in the world, has produced over 43 million ounces of gold in the past 30 years.
A group of miners pose in front of mine headframe in Goldfield c. 1905
Aerial view of Round Mountain open pit, 2008.
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
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.