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Goldstrike Mine
Goldstrike is a gold mine in North Eastern Nevada, Lynn District, Eureka County. It is located on the Carlin Trend where several other mines are found. Barrick Gold started mining Goldstrike in 1986. It is the largest gold mine in North America.The Goldstrike operations consist of the Betze-Post open pit mine and the Meikle and Rodeo underground mines which are located just north of the Betze-Post pit, along the same mineralized trend. Mining Method: open pit Commodity: Gold Reserves/Resources: Gold, 12.6m oz total (2010, proven and probable reserves) Products: Gold, 1.24m oz in 2010 Owner: Barrick Gold Corp. - 100% country/region: UNITED STATES Continent: North America
| hollister gold mine
The Hollister gold project is located in Elko County, Nevada, USA.The property is located along the Carlin structural trend and lies midway between the Ken Snyder Mine and the Goldstrike Mine.Hollister is goinfng to be an underground gold mining operation that over the 8 years LOM will mine 1,048,900 stope tons and will recover 906,900 equivalent Au oz. Mining Method: underground Commodity: Gold, Silver Estimated Mine Life(yrs): 9 Reserves/Resources: Proven & Probable reserves were estimated at 951,546t at 27.08 g/t gold and 162.85g/t silver for 1.74Moz gold equivalent Products: 131 Koz per year Owner: Great Basin Gold (100%); Newmont Mining (5% NSR) country/region: UNITED STATES Continent: North America
| hycroft mine
Hycroft mine is located 87 km (56 miles) west of Winnemucca in Humboldt and Pershing Counties, Nevada, USA. Initial exploratory drilling that targeted copper and sulphur mineralization was conducted in 1974. Homestake drilled it again in early 1980s and discovered shallow oxide gold mineralization. A small scale gold oxide heap leach mining operation started in 1983.Hycroft is a conventional open pit mining operation that treats the oxide ore through heap leach methods and recovers the gold by using a Merrill Crowe method. Mining Method: open pit Commodity: Gold, Silver Estimated Mine Life(yrs): To 2025 mining (2030 processing) Reserves/Resources: Gold - 12.7 Moz (proven & probable; Dec 31, 2011),Silver - 481.9 Moz Products: Gold - 104 Koz (2011) Silver - 480 Koz Owner: Allied Nevada Gold Corp. - 100% country/region: UNITED STATES Continent: North America
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