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BUFF CLAIMS, Humboldt County, Nevada USA
Project Summary

OVERVIEW. Buffalo Mountain Property Holdings.

The Buff claims, located four miles southwest of Newmont's Lone Tree gold mine, were staked to cover structurally-controlled, sediment hosted gold mineralization and a copper-bearing intrusive. The claims are underlain by Penn-Permian Havallah sandy limestone, shale, chert, and quartzite that have been intruded by Cretaceous (?) diorite. The sediments appear to be folded into a north striking synform possibly plunging shallowly to the south.

Altered Havallah shales, host of a 400,000 ton @ 0.046 oz/ton gold resource located about one mile southwest of the claims, can be followed intermittently onto southwest part of the claim block.

The Buff claims are located about two miles northeast of Nevada Mine Properties II, Inc. "Tact" claims.

PROPERTY

Twenty six unpatented lode mining claims:
Buff #1-4, 5-8 NMC 398091-398094, 419638-419641
Buff #11-14, 15 NMC 398095-398098, 419643
Buff #16-18 NMC 419644-419646
Buff # 21-25, 31-35 NMC 419648-419652, 419657-419661

LOCATION

Section 32, T34N, R42E. Buffalo Mountain, Humboldt County, Nevada.
Battle Mountain - Eureka Trend.
Approximately 4 miles SW of Newmont's Lone Tree gold mine, 5 miles NW of Gold Corp / Barrick's Marigold gold mine, and 4 miles north of the Converse / Redline gold deposit.

DEPOSIT TYPE

  • High angle feeder structures cf. Lone Tree mine-type shears.
  • High angle feeder structures / gold skarn, cf. Turquoise Ridge doming or Fortitude-style mineralization below Golconda Thrust.
  • Favorable Upper / Lower Plate sediment-hosted below Golconda Thrust.

GEOLOGIC SETTING

Cretaceous diorite intrudes Penn-Permian Havallah limestone-chert-quartzite-shale-shale sequence that has been folded into a north striking synform, plunging gently southerly. A range fault, generally following 020-040 strike of the sediments, crosses the claim block from southwest to northeast. Some investigators mapped thrust faults separating Havallah lithologies.

PHYSICAL SETTING-COMPETITOR ACTIONS

Proximity to Newmont's Lone Tree mine along with the 8 claims Newmont has staked and continues to hold in NE ¼ of section 32, adjacent to the Buff claims, warrants an active position at the Buff property.

TARGETS

Shallow Targets: Mineralized and gold anomalous shears hosted by Havallah Fm. in SW¼, section 32, modeled as Lone Tree-style shears or shallow Converse / Redline-style gold skarn.

Deep Targets: Prospective targets hosted in the Overlap Sequence or Lower Plate sediments below the Golconda thrust, enhanced by presence of intrusives. Modeled after a Turquoise Ridge-type deposit.

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