Goldstrike is a gold mine in Eureka County in north-eastern Nevada. It is located on the Carlin Trend, a prolific gold mining district. It is owned and operated by Barrick Gold. Since Barrick acquired
Goldstrike Mine from space, 2016. The large Betze-Post open pit is labelled at top center. False color image: see source for details.
Millerite- Arsenian Pyrite specimen from the underground Meikle mine, Goldstrike complex.
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.