| Lat / long: | 40.9299, -116.32399 |
| Primary: | Gold |
| Secondary: | Silver |
| Ore: | Gold, Clay |
| Gangue: | Quartz |
| Orebody form: | tabular, disseminated, and irregular |
| Discovery year: | 1985 |
| Operation type: | Surface |
| Deposit type: | sediment-hosted gold-silver |
| Production size: | Small |
| Development status: | Producer |
| First production started: | 1961 |
| Last production ended: | 2004 |
| Host rock: | Popovich Formation, Vinini Formation , Roberts Mountains Formation |
| Host type: | Limestone,Carbonate,Argillite,Chert |
| Associated rock: | Goldstrike Stock |
| Associated type: | Rhyolite |
| Structure: | Generally northwest-trending, broad to moderate amplitude, anticlinal folds play an important role as structural traps to fluid migration within individual deposits and on a regional scale. The autochthonous carbonate sequences that form the Carlin and Lynn tectonic windows are postulated to be remnant segments of a larger north-northwest-trending regional-scale anticline, with a doubly plunging fold axis that extends from the Gold Quarry deposit northward to the Genesis deposit. In this unified tectonic window model, gold deposits of the north-central and south-central Carlin trend are clustered along both the northeast and southwest flanks of the anticline, while its central portion has been segmented into a Tertiary, postmineral graben by late-phase Basin and Range extensional block faulting., The K and Anne dikes are important dike-filled northeast fault structures in the Genesis Mine area. |
| Alteration processes: | Zonation patterns for silica-sulfide breccia pipes such as Deep Star exhibit compact envelopes in which silicification and sulfidation are more intensely focused than at other Carlin deposits. |
| MRDS | M242941 |
| DEP | 10310439 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: Bonham, H.F., 1988 in NBMG MI-1987.}{Deposit:: Bonham, H.F., 1986 NBMG Map 91.}{Deposit:: Nevada Mining Assn. Bull, Oct-Nov, 1985.}{Deposit:: NBMG Mining District File 115, numerous press clippings.}{Deposit:: Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States; Part A, Database description and analysis; part B, Digital database: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-206, 33 p., one 3.5 inch diskette.}{Deposit:: Chris H. Clode, Steven R. Grusing, Ivan M. Johnston, and Dean G. Heitt, 2002, Geology of the Deep Star Gold Deposit in NBMG Bull. 111}{Deposit:: Keith Bettles, 2002, Exploration and geology, 1962 to 2002, at the Goldstrike Property, Carlin Trend, Nevada; in NBMG Bull. 111.}{Deposit:: LONG AND OTHERS, 1998} |
| Reporter | Schruben, Paul G., LaPointe, D.D. |