Description
Resource Associates of Alaska (RAA) geologists
Commodities
PrimaryGold
SecondarySilver
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typereplacement
Model173: Sediment-hosted Au
Deposit sizeN
Orebody formshallowly dipping tabular body
Ore controlMajor northeast trending faults cut through the area and are believed to be a regional control to the localization of gold mineralization. Eocene dikes that are abundant as N-S, WNW, and NW swarms within the Battle Mountain Gold Belt. These dike swarms are spatially, if not genetically, associated with gold concentrations at Hilltop-Slaven.
Geology
Host rockClastic Sedimentary Rock · "Slaven Chert", "Valmy Formation"
StructureRoberts Mountains Thrust, Major northeast trending faults cut through the area and are believed to be a regional control to the localization of gold mineralization.
Tectonic settingUpper Plate Roberts Mountains Allochthon.
AlterationAlteration is dominantly argillization and sanding.
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
Discovery year1983
Identification
Deposit ID10310442
Alternate namesGordo Claims, Teal, Wood Duck
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates40.5199, -116.7726
References
NBMG MI-90NBMG MI-94 thru MI-02Amer. Mines (1996), 1995 thru Amer. Mines (1999)1998; MASMILS 0320150324Battle Mtn. Land Status, 1975Crescent Valley LS, 1979; Annual Reportwww.whiteknightres.com websiteSEG Newsletter, 4/1/02.Timothy D. Jefferson and Arthur R. Leger, 2005, Technical Report for the Slaven Canyon Property Lander County, Nevada, USA Prepared for: White Knight Resources Ltd., unpublished, online at http://www.whiteknightres.com/i/pdf/Slaven-43101.pdf