NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY

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BULLETIN 111, Gold Deposits of the Carlin Trend, PLATE 1

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Geology of the Northern Carlin Trend

Newmont Mining Corporation Geologists and Geophysicists Barrick Goldstrike Mining Corporation Geologists
Steve Moore, geologic editor

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This map has been prepared to depict general geology. The locations of section lines and surface mine facilities are approximate and should not be relied upon for any other purpose.

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QUATERNARY DEPOSITS
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MIOCENE IGNEOUS AND SEDIMENTARY ROCKS Carlin Formation Weakly consolidated alluvial, lacustrine, and tuffaceous deposits; weathering gray, tan, and white. Includes interbedded coarse gravels, gravel with tan, tuffaceous silty matrix, and tuffaceous siltstone and sandstone with a high proportion of glassy, gray ash containing pumiceous shards. Thickness up to 700 feet (210 m) in Little Boulder Basin and greater than 2,000 feet (600m) in Boulder Valley. Deposits fill subsidence structures in the Genesis and Dee pits and along the Gen fault, and are cut by reactivated faults of the Post-Gen fault system. 40Ar/39Ar dates from Fleck and others (1998) are 14.4 to 15.1 Ma. Gravel layers on west side of Little Boulder Basin contain gold-mineralized clasts.
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Rhyolite lavas Felsitic to glassy rhyolite lava flows, locally flow-foliated and spherulitic, containing about 5% quartz, Fe-olivine and sanidine phenocrysts in an aphanitic groundmass. Overlie or are interbedded with Carlin Formation in Boulder Valley. K/Ar date of 14.6 Ma from Evans (1974a). Unit interpreted as correlative with rhyolite of Marys Mountain, dated at 15.2 Ma (Henry and Faulds, 1999).
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EOCENE IGNEOUS ROCKS Rhyolite dikes White to light gray, weathering white to light brown. 0-40% phenocrysts of plagioclase, biotite, quartz, sanidine, and/or biotite in a microcrystalline quartz-feldspar, or locally glassy, groundmass. Includes: the rhyolite of the Beast dike and Gen fault zone, with distinctive 4-30 mm rounded, resorbed quartz phenocrysts; and aphyric, microspherulitic, high-silica rhyolite dikes of the Deep Star and Genesis mines. 40Ar/39Ar dates are about 38 Ma (rhyolite of Deep Star) and 37.3 Ma (rhyolite of Beast dike) (Ressel and others, 2000a).
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Dacite and rhyodacite porphyry dikes Includes plagioclase-biotite-hornblende dacite and plagioclase-biotite-quartz rhyodacite dikes of the Genesis, Betze-Post, and Meikle Mines, and the K-dike at the Genesis Mine. Dacite dikes are dated at 37.8 to 39.2 Ma from Betze-Post and Meikle (U/Pb and 40Ar/39Ar); glassy rhyodacite dikes at Genesis and Betze-Post are 39.1 to 40.1 Ma (Arehart and others, 1993b; Farmer, 1996; Mortensen and others, 2000; Ressel and others, 2000b). Includes biotite-feldspar porphyry "bfp" dikes and Betze dacite of mine terminology.
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JURASSIC IGNEOUS ROCKS Lamprophyre dikes Dikes of mafic to intermediate, calc-alkaline composition with phenocrysts of mica, amphibole, and probable pyroxene or olivine. Mica-bearing lamprophyres contain abundant phlogopite in a fine-grained groundmass of phlogopite, potassium feldspar, quartz, apatite, and carbonate minerals. Hornblende lamprophyres contain magnesian amphibole in a groundmass of plagioclase, quartz, apatite, and carbonate. Xenocrystic quartz inclusions (3-5 mm) are common. Included are dikes recognized as porphyritic monzodiorite near the Goldstrike intrusion. Includes lathy latite, microdiorite and meladiorite dikes of mine terminology. Alteration to chlorite, sericite, pyrite, quartz and carbonate minerals frequent. Dikes typically strike NNW and define a 10-mile (16 km) long dike swarm centered on the Post-Gen fault system. K/Ar and 40Ar/39Ar dates range from 156 to 158 Ma (McComb, 1995a; M.B. McComb, NMC, unpub. data, 1991; M.W. Ressel, unpub. data). Lamprophyre dikes cut the Goldstrike stock. Altered lamprophyre dikes commonly gold-mineralized in deposit areas.
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Granodiorite and quartz diorite of the Goldstrike, Little Boulder Basin, and Vivian intrusions Compositionally variable stocks, dikes, sills, and silllike larger masses including the Goldstrike stock, the LBB stock (covered beneath Little Boulder Basin), the Vivian sill, and dikes and sills of the Genesis and Betze-Post mine areas. Rocks are mostly equigranular and contain plagioclase-hornblende-biotiteclinopyroxene-quartz K-feldspar, with accessory sphene, epidote and apatite. K/Ar, 40Ar/39Ar, and U/Pb dates from the Goldstrike stock fall in the range 157.2-159.1 Ma (Arehart and others, 1993b; Mortensen and others, 2000). Goldstrike stock hosts significant gold mineralization at Betze-Post deposit.
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PALEOZOIC SEDIMENTARY ROCKS Rocks of Roberts Mountains Allochthon Western siliceous assemblage (Devonian, Silurian, Ordovician) Structurally interlayered sequence dominated by siliceous mudstone, chert and siltstone. Includes lenses or layers of greenstone, black and green chert, shale, silty limestone, sandy limestone, sandstone and quartzite. Dark, commonly carbonaceous to pyritic rocks weather brown, tan, and light to dark gray. Commonly cut by pervasive to distributed, brittle-ductile foliation or shear fabric bounding centimeter- to meter-scale lenses. Locally contactmetamorphosed to brown quartz ( biotite-K-feldspar) hornfels and gray-green calc-silicate hornfels. Hydrothermally silicified (as jasperoid and silicified mudstone) along faults and over wider areas. Thickness to >8,000 feet (2,400 m) in Tuscarora Mountains. Fossil collections by Evans (1980) and Cluer and others (1997) have Ordovician and Silurian ages.
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LBB STOCK (in subsurface)

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35
Qal
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36
6800

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52

DOw
cs

65

83

Teir

33

00

BUZZARD FAULT

Dp

Undifferentiated siliceous mudstone, chert, siltstone, shale, sandstone, and quartzite. Silty or sandy limestone; light gray. Quartz (+/- biotite-K-feldspar) hornfels; brown. Calc-silicate hornfels; gray-green. Greenstone; amygdaloidal, chloritic mafic igneous rock.

#9

csh Jil

DOwcs

Dp
Teir Qls
PAYRAISE SLIDE

590 0

116 26'

548

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Drcss 56

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36 75 80

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R ID

62 00

S IX

57 00

Teid

BI G

Dee

Gold mineralization

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75

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Drc

Teir

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60

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DOw
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DSr4
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Storm (Rossi)

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CO RN

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NN

smf

ER S

Santa Renia Fields 7.5' Quad

Index map showing Carlin North Area gold deposits and other mineralized occurrences in red (Teal and Jackson,1997a; K. Bettles, 2001, pers. commun.), geologic mapping sources in black, and U.S. Geological Survey 7.5-minute quadrangles in blue.

62 00

55 Jil 53 68

Dp

DSr3

DSr4

OR

Index of Geologic Mapping

Qal

Qal Teir
Teir

Dpcsh
68 csh Jil 75 7682 Dp Dp

South dump

Mill 4-2 tailings impoundment

Tmc

27

Jig

45

T35N

42

51

Dpcsh
Jil
Teir

Jil

Genesis Mine

smf

DOwqh
36

68

DOwsl

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00 66

Jig

6600
DOwqh DOwcs DOwg

0 580

ONY TIM AN

DOw Dp

Jig

VIVIAN SILL

7000

CO R

FA UL T

Teid

Drc
ss

15

FA UL T

00 55

38 65

5800

Jig

00 Drcss 58 Dp
West dump

smf

Drcsm

Tmc Jil DSr3

Drcss

68

Tmc

Beast Mine

00 64
Jig

DOwqh
35

0 720

45

U FA
LT

DOw

7000

RI DO

0 660

Qal

DOwqh

6600

Jig

40 75

6800

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Slaven Chert and Elder Formation (Devonian and Silurian) Differentiated from Ordovician rocks in northern part of map after Cluer and others (1997), G. Cleveland and V. Spalding (written commun.), T. Theodore (written commun.), G. Griffin (personal commun.), and T. Chadwick and P. Dobak (personal commun.). Includes gray-green dolomitic siltstone, dark gray shale and chert, feldspathic siltstone and sandstone, and micaceous mudstone (Elder Formation), and green, gray, and black chert with shale and argillite partings (Slaven Chert). Graptolite collections confirm Silurian age of lower part of sequence.
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A AROR INE TUSC I CL ANT

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LT FAU

Capstone Bootstrap Ren West Ren

2 kilometers
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116 22' 116 20'

Meikle

Tmr
DOw

68

68
RM

70 75 62 57 74 25 57 Teid 60 Jil

BARITE FAULT
47

S. B

Teir

EA ST

Banshee

Tara

41 00'

South Meikle West Griffin Griffin

61 55
EF

UN DI N

FA UL T

W ES

BA SI N

FO UR C

Betze Screamer Bazza Point West Bazza Shalosky Post

Drcss Drc

81

80 75 30

OR N

(Goldbug)

Qal

Dp
sm

smf
Jig DSr2
82 Jig 56 25
FA

ER S

Golden April

-B

Barrel

Rodeo

Drcsm
T RM

RE
T UL FA

Jig

72

70

Qal DSr4

60 00

Rodeo Creek NE 7.5' Quad

DSr2

75

Lantern dump

Tmc

32

BO UN DIN G

Beaver Peak 7.5' Quad

DOw

FA UL T

72

Drcss

71

Teid

Drc

DSr2

85

75

FAUL

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40 56'

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78

65

81 42

DSr4

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20
C TUS NE ICLI ANT

re

Dp
Teir

Drcsm

Drcsm
RMT

North Area stockpiles

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T

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Tu

DOw

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Jil 78

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48

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C

75

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DOwqh
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DOw

7
40 56'

Vinini Formation (Ordovician) Differentiated from younger rocks in northern part of map after Cluer and others (1997), G. Cleveland and V. Spalding (written commun.), G. Griffin (personal commun.), and T. Chadwick and P. Dobak (personal commun.). Gray, black, and green chert and siliceous mudstone, pyritic mudstone, and graptolitic siltstone and shale. Graptolite and palynomorph collections are Middle and Late Ordovician.
Ovi

T RM

6200

00 59
Jil

LOBO

DSr4

DOw
38 22 18 28

6500

6400

interpreted thrust fault Marys Mountain sequence(?) (Devonian) West of Richmond Mountain, allochthonous, fault-bounded lens of gray limestone with chert lenticles and interbedded chert. Thickness up to 400 feet (120 m). Questionably correlated with the Devonian-age Marys Mountain sequence on plate 2.
Dm

T FAUL

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Tu

E LE

sm

6200
48

B'
DOw
75 36

66 00

Lyn 25 n
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23

LL VI E

LE ST CA

T UL FA

sc

78

Drcss

0 64

O DE RO

60

Jig DOw
36

C
31

Drc

23

55

re e

6000

Roberts Mountains thrust fault (RMT) Rocks beneath Roberts Mountains Thrust Rodeo Creek unit (Devonian) Dark gray siliceous mudstone and chert, with regular, 2- to 3-cm-thick beds separated by thin, planar partings. Interbedded with lenticular packets of medium-grained quartz sandstone (especially near base of unit), and gray, planar-laminated silty limestone. Silicified basal sandstone is evidently decarbonatized sandy limestone and calcarenite, and silty limestone is widely decarbonatized to porous siltstone. Thickness 100700 feet (30-210 m); top truncated by Roberts Mountains thrust. Faunal collections by Ettner (1989) indicate Late Devonian age. Silicified basal parts are local gold hosts.
Drcsm

ar
or

K EE CR

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5800

Deep Post

Bazza
Long Lac Winston

40 58'

54 0

76

North Skarn Hill Skarn Hill

West #9 North Star NW Genesis Bobcat Blue Star Widge Deep Star

4530

Jig
FOOT

84

Jil

CO W

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76 86 80

72

23
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80

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52

83 72

Antimony Hill

Geologic Mapping Sources

Note: Folios cited are layered map sets at various scales from Newmont Mining Corporation files, which include outcrop and interpretive surface geology map sheets. Folio boundaries are not representative of property boundaries or land ownership.

Payraise

Qal

DOw

Teid

DSr4 DSr2

HAR DIE

Golden Zia

Genesis

81 RS T 84 FL 76 T 64

20
#9 F

Jil
DOw 56 80
CA

DOw
24

FAU LT

Drcsm

76 52

61

E.

HO

Tmc

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43

34

DOw
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ER

N STO

TH

Rodeo Creek NW 7.5' Quad

Tmr

DOw

85

DOw

6400

6600

RU ST

12

sm

DSr2 DSr3

90 73 84

80

Teir

Lantern Mine

10

11

DOw
35 40

T UL FA

12

DOwg
38

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a
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DOw DOw

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18

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5100

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p " s 00
Drcss

N TER LAN

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80

DSr4
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FA

HIGH GRADE FAULT

59
ST LE

42

6200
DOwsl DOw
LEEVILLE FAULT
35

41

DOw

DOw
43
FA UL T

58

Siliceous mudstone and chert, with minor interbedded sandstone and silty limestone. Quartz sandstone and calcarenite. Silty limestone of Tara Mine area.

56

LE ST CA

T FL

TUSCARORA ANTICLINE

EF RE

T AUL

65

40 56'

10

Blue Star Ridge

Beast

12
Four Corners

Turf

14
Tmr
Big Six

Tmr

Drcsm

Dp RE
63

66 68

56

80

DSr4
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EF

smf smf
28 80 DOw

DOwg

LT U

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SOh

75 72

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80 70 40

Drcss Drcsl

600

DG BA

GEN FAULT

ER

DSr2

South Lantern

r eek Canyon

16

BullionMonarch (Universal Gas Pit)

5700

NW Extension

15

West Leeville Hardie Footwall

Qal Tmr Dp
61 58

Jig

72

BO WL

North Lantern

56

31

57 53

DSr2

600

FA UL T

13
5200

5400
00 58

80

Carlin tailings impoundment

6000
LT F AU
78 18

F LOBO AULT

52

Dp

Jil

Jil East Pit

70

DOwg
50

DSr3

35

0
Carlin dump
Dp DOw Dp
71 34

Carlin Mine
DOw 39
60

MILL FAULT
RMT

17
Carlin West

Carlin East

19
Carlin Fence

13

17

16

56 00
56

43

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Dp Jil

Dp MID W AY DSr 4
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CA NY

1. Chadwick, T. and Dobak, 11 P., 2001, Map of the DeeRossi Mine area, 1:2,400, Barrick Gold Exploration Inc.; Theodore, T., written commun. 2. Teal, L., 1995, Hope Springs folio, 1:2,400. 3. Kofoed, R., Coombs, L., Everhart, P., and Malan, P., 1995-1998, Bootstrap folio, 1:2,400; Malan, P. and Jory, J., 1999, Capstone-Bootstrap-Tara interpretive geologic map, 1:2,400. 4. Cluer and others (1997); Cleveland, G. and Spalding, V., written commun.; Moore, S. and Teal, L.,1992, Ren Joint Venture folio, 1:2,400 5. Edwards, J. and Cuffney, R., 1995, East 20 Tara folio, 1:2,400. 6. Evans (1974a) 7. Griffin, G.L., and geologic staff of Barrick Goldstrike Mining Corporation, 1990-2000; Thoreson, R. and geologic staff of Newmont Mining Corporation, Post subdistrict, 1990-2000; Teal, L., Theriault, B., and Zimmerman, J., 1994, Bell Creek folio, 1:6,000. 8. Penick, M., Rahn, J., and Barrick Goldstrike Mine geology staff, Betze-Post Geology Map 1999, 1:2,400. 9. Grusing, S., C. Cornejo, P. Dobak, M. Doyle, P. Everhart, D. Harris, M. Jones, J. Jory, K. Kunkle, M. Orobona, K. Paul, J. Powell, L. Schutz, A. Sweide, W. Trudel, and C. Williams, 1999, Blue Star-Lantern geologic map, 1:3,600. 10. Teal, L., and Harvey, B,, 1991-1992, North Spur folio, 1:6,000. 11. Harvey, B., 1991, South Spur folio, 1:6,000. 12. Lisle, R., and Mohling, J. 1995-1998, North Lynn folios, 1:1,200.

DSr3

DSr4 SOh
54 47 12

Oe

52

15

64

DSr3
44 44

DSr3

West 85 Pit

14

DOw Drc
75

DIE HAR
P IN MA

0 600
60

DSr4

Carlin East Mine portal

DOw
C R O W

5800
73

88 34

Jil

DSr4
55 58 77

68

DSr4
60

0 620
60

6000
FA U LT

Island

5500

40 54'

18

Jil 79

54

Tmr

Qal

Dp

56

DSr4

DSr4

smf

640

Perry

Pete

CA 70 ST 65 LE 77 Dp RE 73 EF DSr3 FA UL T

Jil sm Main Pit

34 50 75

89 70

Jil

13
Carlin dump
smf
0

0 600

58

70 50

00 63 25
45

DSr4

50

35

70

im
42

18

60

on

65

0 580
84

C re 72 e k
30

19
DOw

Popovich Formation (Devonian) Medium to dark gray, carbonaceous silty limestone, micrite, and calcarenite deposits of basin slope environment. Subdivided in mine usage in Carlin North Area into three subunits: Dp2 (lowermost): thin-bedded to planar-laminated silty micrite with thin calcarenite to calcisiltite interbeds; Dp1: medium-bedded to massive micrite with distinctive soft-sediment slump and flame structures; Dp0 (uppermost): planarlaminated silty limestone with pyritic laminae, calcarenite and limestone conglomerate. (Subunits not differentiated at this map scale; see volume articles for additional detail.) Metamorphosed to hornfels near Goldstrike stock. Total thickness 400-800 feet (120-240 m). Early to Middle Devonian age (Evans, 1980; Armstrong and others, 1998). Units Dp2 and Dp0 are commonly gold hosts.
Dp Dpm Dpcsh

540 0

KE DI

IT

DIK E

#6

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4528
5000

PA

RA

5400
LLE

5600 Oe
FAUL T

Qal

Qal

Sh 72
82

Oe

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30

5800
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DSr4

61 34

Carlin dump
42
21
65

60

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Undifferentiated silty limestone, micrite, and calcarenite. Micrite of subunit Dp1. Calc-silicate hornfels.

00 60

ET W FA T UL

Drcsm

RM

22

4528

AU EF ILL EV LE

40 52'

Welches Canyon 7.5' Quad

40 54'
490 0

Qal

ep he S

Creek
00 51 Tmr

62 00

DSr4

SOh

DSr4

0 610 DSr4

57

LT

Dp

35

DSr4 Qal SOh

34

Drcsm DSr4
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40 54'

Tmr Qal DSr4

SOh

13. Knight, D., 1992, North Lynn folio, 1:6,000. 14. Teal, L., 1994, Antimony Hill folio, 1:2,400. 15. Groves, D., Bell, P., Cole, D., Jackson, M., and Koehler, S. 1993-1996, High Desert Venture project folios, 1:1,200. 16. Jackson, M., 1994, Castle Reef folio, 1:1,200. 17. Moore, S., 1993, Rita K folio, 1:2,400. 18. Myers, I., Jory, J., Malan, P., Morrison, D., and Powell, J., 1992-2000, Carlin Mine map, 1:1,200; Myers, 1993. 19. Hunsaker, B., Grusing, S., Koehler, S., and Kofoed, R., 1993-2000, Roy folio, 1:2,400 and Pete Deposit map. 20. Moore, S. and Malan, P., 1994-2000, Richmond Northwest folio, 1:6,000; Evans, 1974a. 21. Teal, L., and Malan, P., 1996-2000, Richmond Northeast folio, 1:6,000.

6 60 0

540 0

24

20

Tmr

Tmr DOw

21
JO E

SOh DSr4

DSr4 00 59

0 600

65 00

21

DSr2

00 65

62
CA

00
RE EF

Dp

70

Dp

51

5800
41

22
38

SOh Oe Oe
40

24

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24
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68

DSr4

DSr2

Bootstrap limestone (Devonian, Silurian) Massive light gray bioclastic limestone, biosparite, and ooid packstone and grainstone deposited in shoal environment and containing coral, pelmatozoan, brachiopod and bryozoan faunas (Armstrong, and others, 1998). As defined by drilling and exposures in mine areas, occurs as a wedge of shelfal facies in north part of map area, overlapping the lower Roberts Mountains Formation, and overlapped by the upper Popovich Formation. Wedge thickens northeastward to >1,000 feet (300 m), as indicated in drill holes. Unit is a lateral equivalent of slope-facies subunits DSr3 through Dp1. DSb unit is locally a gold host where cut by major structures.
DSb

6 0 00

F A UL

Teir

55 00

5200

0 560

0 580

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48

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SOh
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SOh

41

6800

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640 0

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25

R50E

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55

Dp

DSr4
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SOh
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SOh

SOh
62

00 65
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SOh

34

Qal

DSr4 DSr4

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ON

42

35

Oe

48

SOh

Tmc

55

4526

552

Tmr

DSr(?) Dm (?)
34

Roberts Mountains Formation (Devonian, Silurian) Planar-laminated, gray, carbonaceous, slope-deposited silty limestone sequence with interbedded, centimeter- to meter-scale turbiditic deposits of calcarenite to biogenic debris-flow breccias. Mine stratigraphy subdivided into four informal, mapped subunits shown below. (NOTE: This definition of Roberts Mountains Formation embraces transitional upper subunits DSr1 through DSr3 which were included within lower Popovich Formation by Armstrong and others, 1998). Tectonic slice of DSr(?) questionably above interpreted thrust fault west of Richmond Mountain. Fauna indicate Silurian to Lower Devonian ages (Evans, 1980; Armstrong and others, 1998). Upper DSr units, especially DSr2, host large, stratiform gold deposits in the North Area. DSr4 is a major host near some larger structures.
4526

6000
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RMT

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CRE EK

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116 19'
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Jil
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558
Drcsm

116 18'30"

DSr4
WEST LYNN FAULT

EP

Carlin Mine Area

SCALE 1:12,000 0 0
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90

S HE

35

DOw

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90

Drcsm Dp
40

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58 00
73 45

33

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Oe

6800

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SOh
32

45

45

Oe

DSr1

Silty limestone, planar-laminated to bioturbated; gradational from DSr2 to lower subunit of Popovich Formation. Silty limestone, bioturbated and wispy-bedded with silt-filled, bedding-plane faunal burrows. Silty limestone, laminated to bioturbated, with 5-50% debris-flow interbeds and lenses, containing allodapic, fossiliferous carbonate shelf detritus. Silty limestone; monotonous, 800 feet (240 m) thick laminated sequence with thin calcarenite interbeds.

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Dp
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33

East Pit
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50

39

0
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Dm(?) Qal DOw DSr(?) DOwsl Dm(?) Teir

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Qal

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DOwg

M o u n ta in

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Carlin East Mine portal

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Tmr

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SOh DSr4

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ON

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Oe

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Jil

Hanson Creek Formation (Silurian, Ordovician) Massive to thick-bedded, medium gray, locally cherty or fossiliferous, finely bioclastic dolomite, overlain locally near formation top by thin subunits of light gray sandy dolomite and silty dolomite. Crops out as massive gray cliffs in Richmond Mountain area and Sheep Creek Canyon. Thickness 1,060 feet (320 m) (Evans, 1980). Eureka Quartzite (Ordovician) Massive to thin-bedded, homogeneous, light gray to white orthoquartzite, with local lenses of dolomite. Ridge-forming, resistant white outcrops in Richmond Mountain area and Sheep Creek Canyon. Evans (1980) reported a thickness of 1,660 feet (506 m).
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W MI D

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540 0

IN MA

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60

DOwg

UN R ICHMOND MO TAI N

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sm

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SOh

DSr4

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Tmr

Qal

Op

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Oe

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Qal

DOw

DOw

67

Dm(?) Teid Dm(?)

Dp

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Oe

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Qal

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DOw

DOwsl

DSr4

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SOh
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Pogonip Group (Ordovician) Thin- to thick-bedded limestone, cherty limestone and dolomite, undifferentiated, in Richmond Mountain area. Minimum thickness about 1,400 feet (430 m).
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Base map from part of U.S. Geological Survey Santa Renia Fields 7.5' Quadrangle, 1970; combined with aerial and pit surveys by Newmont Mining Corporation. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Mail Stop 178, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 (775) 784-6691, ext. 2; nbmgsales@unr.edu; www.nbmg.unr.edu

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