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The Guanajuato Mining District, Mexico: This district has been mined for centuries and is known for its high-grade epithermal veins containing gold and silver. [11] The Baguio Mineral District, Philippines: This district is home to numerous epithermal vein deposits, including the Acupan Mine, one of the largest gold mines in the Philippines. [12]
The Certej mine is an epithermal gold-silver deposit located in the Apuseni Mountains of Transylvania in western Romania. The deposit extends from surface and was previously mined as an open pit. Certej contains proven and probable reserves of approximately 2.5 million ounces of gold and 16.3 million ounces of silver. [1]
The shear related deposit is the central ore body and is flanked by the epithermal gold to the west and intrusive related gold to the east. The two latter deposits are influenced by extensional forces from the outer areas of the shear zone. [1] [3] The early Permian epithermal gold deposit was derived mainly from meteoric water that filled in ...
A variety of gold deposits are formed in accretionary orogens, including orogenic gold deposits. [38] Orogenic gold deposits are typically located in metamorphosed fore-arc and back-arc regions, as well as in the arc [3] and show a close spatial relationship to lamprophyres and associated felsic porphyry dikes and sills. [39]
All of the deposits shown that are north and east of the Battle Mountain-Eureka trend (and many of the others) are Carlin-type gold deposits. Source: USGS Goldstrike (Post–Betze) Mine , Carlin Trend , Nevada, the largest Carlin-type deposit in the world, containing more than 35,000,000 ounces of gold. [ 1 ]
Lode gold deposits, also referred to as orogenic gold are generally high-grade, thin, vein and fault hosted. They are primarily made up of quartz veins also known as lodes or reefs, which contain either native gold or gold sulfides and tellurides. Lode gold deposits are usually hosted in basalt or in sediments known as turbidite, although when ...
The gold contents of all deposits averages 0.41 g/t Au, with the majority of worldwide deposits averaging less than 1 g/t Au. [2] The occurrence of native gold mineralization. Example from Kalgoorlie Australia. The contents of gold can appear in three different forms in these deposits: [2] Native gold; Electrum; Gold–bismuth–antimony ...
In situ gold-bearing vein (in brown) at the Toi gold mine, Japan. In many gold mines exploited during the gold rushes of the 19th century, vein material alone was typically sought as ore material. [8] In most of today's mines, ore material is primarily composed of the veins and some component of the wall rocks which surrounds the veins. [9]