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The Deep Creek claims are located approximately 112km north of Elko, Nevada, and 56km northeast of the Newmont-owned Midas mine, in the Independance segment of the prolific Carlin gold trend.
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Gold at Deep Creek was first discovered by Franco-Nevada in the mid 1980s, when two large geochemical anomalies were found to contain visible gold in grab samples. One of a dozen holes drilled intersected 14 grams per tonne gold (0.42 opt Au) over a ten meter interval, but true thickness was not determined at the time.
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On the surface, mineralization appears to be associated with highly silicified breccias and sinters along a prominent range front structure in Paleozoic carbonate rocks. Over 70 surface rock chip samples were collected mostly along the range front st Plus...
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