| Abstract: | The Paradise Peak mine is a major gold-silver-mercury deposit located in the southwestern part of the Paradise Range near the eastern edge of the Walker Lane in the western Great Basin, Nevada. Regional stratigraphic relations and K-Ar ages indicate that volcanism changed from silicic ash-flow tuffs to intermediate lavas at about 20 to 19 Ma. Regionally extensive angular unconformities indicate that a period of "pre-Basin and Range‘ crustal extension occurred between about 22 to 19 Ma. This extension was penecontemporaneous with the shift in the style of volcanism and with gold-silver mineralization in the Paradise Peak mine and in the Goldfield and Tonopah districts of western Nevada. The close temporal and spatial relationships of precious metal mineralization with pre-Basin and Range extension suggest that extension was a major factor in the genesis of early Miocene precious metal deposits in the western Great Basin. -from Authors |
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| Citation Author: | John, D. A.; Thomason, R. E.; McKee, E. H. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | Economic Geology |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Geology and K-Ar geochronology of the Paradise Peak Mine and the relationship of pre-Basin and Range extension to Early Miocene precious metal mineralization in west-central Nevada; 1989; Article; Journal; Economic Geology; John, D. A.; Thomason, R. E.; McKee, E. H. |
| Citation Start Page: | 631 |
| Citation Volume: | 84 |
| Citation Year: | 1989 |
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| Text: | Geology and K-Ar geochronology of the Paradise Peak Mine and the relationship of pre-Basin and Range extension to Early Miocene precious metal mineralization in west-central Nevada; 1989; Article; Journal; Economic Geology; John, D. A.; Thomason, R. E.; McKee, E. H. |
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| Date Other: | Sun, 1 Jan 1989 00:00 -0600 |
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