Goodsprings Nevada, USA
Nevada Titan Project
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Location:
The Nevada Titan Property is located within the Goodsprings Mining District in Clark County, Nevada. The property is located 35 km southwest of Las Vegas, and is accessed via paved roads and graded gravel roads.
Water for exploration activities can be obtained from Sandy Valley and Goodsprings. Grid Power is available nearby at Sandy Valley and Goodsprings.
Geology:
Host rocks are dominantly dolomitic stratified sedimentary rocks that have been altered to marble in places. These host rocks are cross-cut by intrusive skarn-forming granitic plutons, dikes and sills. Local mafic to ultramafic rocks, mainly olivine-bearing dikes, are reported in some areas.
The majority of the mineralization defined historically occurs in dolomitized zones of lower Mississippian limestone. A few deposits of gold and silver mineralization occur in dikes of highly altered intrusive porphyry, localized either in or a short distance above the thrust faults. Most of the zinc and lead deposits lie in the rocks overlying the intrusions.
While no porphyry intrusions have been previously defined in the area, the spatial coincidence of intrusive rocks and heavily mineralized areas suggests a genetic relation between the defined ore deposits and the porphyry intrusives.
Strucutre:
The project area has been deformed by folding, low- to high-angle faults, and by numerous high-angle faults; as a result, the structural geology of the project is complex.
Alteration:
Much of the property is highly altered; most of the limestones in the central and northern parts of the property have been highly dolomitized and marmorized to marble and skarn.
Feldspar-quartz porphyry dikes are variably sericitized and argillized, and the limestone adjoining the sills and dikes altered to goethite.
Historic Exploration:
The Copper Chief area contains numerous historic mines for a variety of metals, including lead-zinc-silver, gold, copper-gold, and cobalt. Mineralisation was first discovered in 1856 and Mormon settlers commenced production at the Potosi Lead-Zinc Mine in 1857. Mining in the Goodsprings Mining District continued until 1957.
Production from the Goodsprings Mining District is reported to be approximately 160,000 tonnes of zinc-lead-copper, 2.1 million ounces of silver, 90,000 ounces of gold, and small amounts of Platinum Group Elements (PGE), cobalt, vanadium, mercury, stibnite, nickel, molybdenum, manganese, iridium and uranium.
More recent exploration at Nevada Titan includes, high resolution airborne magnetic, electromagnetic and radiometric survey over the northern half of the district, and an IP survey in the Whale Mine area.
Historic drilling has demonstrated the widespread presence of large intersections of copper mineralization, as well as narrower high-grade intersections of polymetallic mineralisation, including:
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20.0 m @ 1.05% Cu (B-05-09)
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13.3 m @ 1.31% Cu (10a-12)
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3.70 m @ 0.53 g/t Au, and 4.13% Cu (BM-52-02)
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0.70 m @ 16.75 g/t Au, 1.95 g/t Pt, 1.50 g/t Pd, 90.00 g/t Ag and 1.2% Cu (BM-47-02)
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0.50 m @ 4.74% Cu (BM-26-01)
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Fairchild’s 2025 exploration program defined anomalous copper mineralization over a 1.5 km corridor. Sampling in the Wash Zone returned anomalous values ranging from hundreds of parts per million to several per cent copper, suggesting that copper mineralization extends beyond the mine exposures, as pods and lenses.
Upcoming Exploration Programme:
Fairchild recently engaged MWH Geophysics to conduct a drone magnetic survey across the entire Nevada Titan Project. Fairchild is currently integrating surface geochemical and geological data with magnetic responses to rank and refine future exploration targets ahead of drilling
Nevada Titan Technical Presention
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Nevada Titan Visual Tour
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