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(Image: Wikimedia Commons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/a89bdf52-8d85-441e-abe4-461594d7df83/Styles-of-argillic-advanced-argillic-alteration-included-within-the-commonly-regarded.png C-Blog - New Models in Old Trends - Make it stand out This diagram shows the locations of high and low sulphidation deposits, intermediate sulphidation deposits occur in the permeable horizon between high and low sulphidation deposits. (Image: Greg Corbett) https://www.convergentmining.com/c-blog/ab495-and-its-consequences monthly 0.5 2022-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/a43bf8f9-4d3f-4cb8-8ea3-f9f6a4906396/NGM+taxes+for+2020.JPG C-Blog - Assembly Bill 495 and What it Means for Nevada’s Operators - Make it stand out In 2020, NGM produced 1.44MM ounces of gold (a low year). With the average gold price for 2020 at $1,773/Oz, NGM’s gross revenue for the year comes out to $2.55B. The new 1.1% excise tax comes in at $28MM annually. Even with the 0.051% deduction for the Nevada Commerce Tax or “Modified Business Tax,” total tax liability climbs to well over $300MM a year. Image by Barrick.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/13e5cf70-bc9d-47ba-b1a4-d015bc9fdf4d/legislative-building-notofficial-1024x470-1-768x353.jpg C-Blog - Assembly Bill 495 and What it Means for Nevada’s Operators - Make it stand out Nevada State Legislature Building, Carson City. Image by NSHE.nevada.edu https://www.convergentmining.com/c-blog/grassroots-exploration-on-the-walker-lane monthly 0.5 2022-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/544860f2-c6dd-4d5f-8c3a-4dac3cbeb6f7/All+In+sustaining+costs+Walker+Lane+vs+Carlin+Trend.jpg C-Blog - What Makes the Walker Lane so Special? - Make it stand out The proof is in the pudding. When comparing the AISC the Walker Lane averages 180$ less per ounce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/557530f4-f430-4dd5-9783-873d933ee07d/Gold+Production.jpg C-Blog - What Makes the Walker Lane so Special? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/ab56ed2c-ce9b-49f0-a566-dc782702b4da/Walker+Lane+Largest+Producers.jpg C-Blog - What Makes the Walker Lane so Special? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/e435add8-69ce-4363-9bff-0bf3589bb369/carlin+roaster.png C-Blog - What Makes the Walker Lane so Special? - Make it stand out Barrick’s Goldstrike roaster is a prime example of modern technology helping operations at a modern mine. Image by Marianne Kobak McKown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/be85df7c-bfc3-4767-8f65-03cdbc04a07a/Walker+lane.JPG C-Blog - What Makes the Walker Lane so Special? - Make it stand out The Walker Lane is an immense area of faulting directly related to San Andreas and the continent-sized forces at play. The Pacific tectonic plate and North American plate are pushing past each other causing immense tension in the earth’s crust. This tension often (in geologic terms) causes the San Andreas to slip with massive earthquakes. This tension is also released in the sub-faulting along the Walker Lane through a series of much smaller earthquakes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/a609c79e-f195-4f85-b3dd-6a642a6b7902/milling+costs.jpg C-Blog - What Makes the Walker Lane so Special? - Make it stand out Comparing a single ton of ore from the Carlin Trend and the Walker Lane shows an average savings of 40% in milling with the latter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/99302ccc-d73c-451f-95e0-05e163d4b4f6/carlin+pit.png C-Blog - What Makes the Walker Lane so Special? - Make it stand out The size of Carlin Trend and other massive global operations like Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon mine allow for the generous use of economies of scale in lowering production costs. Image by Daniel Gleeson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/a95b82b9-ac45-4929-9f37-e74da587bf8f/Gold+Recovery+Walker+Lane+vs+Carlin+Trend.jpg C-Blog - What Makes the Walker Lane so Special? - Make it stand out Looking at average recoveries between modern Carlin and modern Walker Lane operations shows an average 5% better average recovery from the latter. https://www.convergentmining.com/c-blog/blog-post-title-one-r934z monthly 0.5 2022-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/aa9d2820-8e1c-42ff-beb1-dddaaa99afb7/Bullfrog+NGMDB.JPG C-Blog - Five Essential Resources for Desktop Exploration in the Great Basin - Make it stand out The National Geologic Map database is the next step in evaluating targets. This snip from their website shows the most recent geologic map of the area detailing faults, rock types and contacts. Maps from the National Geologic Map Database can be downloaded in multiple formats, with my favorite being the Google Earth .kmz format for easy 3D interaction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/95eb4e2c-79ca-432d-8beb-318b131f17f6/BLM+Navigator.JPG C-Blog - Five Essential Resources for Desktop Exploration in the Great Basin - Make it stand out The BLM Navigator is a great tool when it comes down to defining exact locations of prospective targets. This is useful for writing up claim notices as well, where you can determine the Township, Range and Section of the area you are staking. For this example, let’s say you want to stake a target east of Beatty. We know this is Section 1, Township 12S, Range 47E, Mount Diablo Meridian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/8c346172-81db-44e0-b9da-120d2928a44d/Bullfrog+fault+map.JPG C-Blog - Five Essential Resources for Desktop Exploration in the Great Basin - Make it stand out Although the faults mapped on the NGMDB are more detailed for the Bullfrog district, the US Quaternary Fault map is useful for lesser-explored regions and a great source of information on fault ages and activity. Another source of data that can be invaluable for exploration in early stages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/692ff8aa-2581-4595-9d71-523e4156424c/well+log+bullfrog+district.JPG C-Blog - Five Essential Resources for Desktop Exploration in the Great Basin - Make it stand out This snip shows all the wells (municipal, monitoring, de-watering, agricultural, etc.) for the Beatty area. Any well can be selected as shown and the well log can be downloaded. Well logs will give detailed descriptions of the hole drilled and geology encountered which can prove very useful when used in tandem with geologic maps. In this case, we’ll look at municipal well log #42327. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/a3e7d758-7af2-436d-b1d6-8104a0052596/well+log.JPG C-Blog - Five Essential Resources for Desktop Exploration in the Great Basin - Make it stand out Although we don’t have assays, this report allows us to see the rock-types encountered during drilling and the thickness of each rock-type. If the target host for mineralization was a grey fractured tuff, we’d know that holes around 200’ in that area will most likely capture that rock-type or that it exists at depth in this area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/2fcfe919-a2cd-47f9-b3ce-87729175902b/google+earth+bullfrog+ngmdb.JPG C-Blog - Five Essential Resources for Desktop Exploration in the Great Basin - Make it stand out A snip of the geologic map as downloaded from NGMDB. The maps are geo-referenced and easy to manipulate in Google Earth. Not only does this add to the ease of evaluating rock types, and faults for your target areas, it allows you to do it in 3D with the additional tools available from Google Earth as a GIS program (measurements, claim blocks, points, etc..) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/bc91f122-c0b9-479b-a581-181268538e43/Bullfrog+Area.png C-Blog - Five Essential Resources for Desktop Exploration in the Great Basin - Make it stand out The Bullfrog district is a rich system and host to Carlin-type, low-sulphidation and high-sulphidation deposits. The USGS hydrothermal alteration map shows the phyllic and argilic alteration from several of the Bullfrog district’s deposits. Gray shaded areas are listed as hydrothermal silica-rich rocks which, in most cases, will be epithermal cap rock indicative of Intermediate-sulphidation and high-sulphidation systems. A target-rich area like this deserves a good once-over, although most of the district is now staked and being explored by major mining companies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61314e62df7ea81a07c57b75/2d177a93-7cdb-4505-8565-5dbd85c86bb8/MLRS+Report+Beatty.JPG C-Blog - Five Essential Resources for Desktop Exploration in the Great Basin - Make it stand out A closer inspection of T12N R47E Sec.1 shows that it is most likely entirely under claim by Corvus Gold. To know for sure where the claims are located exactly, a trip to the State BLM office in Reno or to the local field office will yield claim maps and documentation of claim notices or certificates. 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