Dunfee Gold-Silver Project
Location and History
The Dunfee Gold-Silver Project is located in west-central Esmeralda County, Nevada, approximately 50 km south-southwest of Goldfield and 5 km southeast of the historic town of Gold Point. The property lies on the southwestern flank of Mount Dunfee, at approximately 2,000 metres above sea level, in typical Great Basin topography.
The area is part of the historically productive Gold Point (formerly Hornsilver) Mining District, first discovered in the mid-1860s. While early mining focused on near-surface high-grade hornsilver (AgCl, AgBr), deeper workings encountered native gold. A series of shafts on the Dunfee vein suggest small-scale historic production, with dump sizes indicating possible output of 5,000–15,000 ounces of gold, although no official records are available.
Geological Potential
The Dunfee property covers a 1.5 km-wide domal uplift believed to be associated with a shallow apophysis of the Sylvania pluton, a quartz-monzonite intrusive. The local geology includes Precambrian Wyman metasediments, Reed Dolomite, and intrusions of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous rhyolite dikes. These rocks are structurally disrupted and host a number of N70W- to W-trending quartz-gold-silver vein systems.
Gold mineralization improves where the quartz veins transition from metasediments into underlying intrusive rocks — a phenomenon observed regionally. Assay results from the Dunfee site have returned:
0.1 to 1.0 ounces per ton (opt) gold
1 to 10 opt silver
48% of surface samples show ore-grade values
Dump material and mapped structures outline a 1 km long vein system, with widths of 1–2 metres and potential for additional parallel systems.
The broader dome is hypothesized to host a porphyry-style gold system, with potential for 80–100 million tonnes of mineralized rock at 0.015–0.02 opt Au and 1.0–1.5 opt Ag — making Dunfee a high-potential early-stage target.
Further work may include:
Detailed mapping and sampling
Geophysics and RC drilling to 250 m depth
Claim expansion and annual maintenance
Dunfee Gold-Silver Project
Location and History
The Dunfee Gold-Silver Project is located in west-central Esmeralda County, Nevada, approximately 50 km south-southwest of Goldfield and 5 km southeast of the historic town of Gold Point. The property lies on the southwestern flank of Mount Dunfee, at approximately 2,000 metres above sea level, in typical Great Basin topography.
The area is part of the historically productive Gold Point (formerly Hornsilver) Mining District, first discovered in the mid-1860s. While early mining focused on near-surface high-grade hornsilver (AgCl, AgBr), deeper workings encountered native gold. A series of shafts on the Dunfee vein suggest small-scale historic production, with dump sizes indicating possible output of 5,000–15,000 ounces of gold, although no official records are available.
Geological Potential
The Dunfee property covers a 1.5 km-wide domal uplift believed to be associated with a shallow apophysis of the Sylvania pluton, a quartz-monzonite intrusive. The local geology includes Precambrian Wyman metasediments, Reed Dolomite, and intrusions of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous rhyolite dikes. These rocks are structurally disrupted and host a number of N70W- to W-trending quartz-gold-silver vein systems.
Gold mineralization improves where the quartz veins transition from metasediments into underlying intrusive rocks — a phenomenon observed regionally. Assay results from the Dunfee site have returned:
0.1 to 1.0 ounces per ton (opt) gold
1 to 10 opt silver
48% of surface samples show ore-grade values
Dump material and mapped structures outline a 1 km long vein system, with widths of 1–2 metres and potential for additional parallel systems.
The broader dome is hypothesized to host a porphyry-style gold system, with potential for 80–100 million tonnes of mineralized rock at 0.015–0.02 opt Au and 1.0–1.5 opt Ag — making Dunfee a high-potential early-stage target.
Further work may include:
Detailed mapping and sampling
Geophysics and RC drilling to 250 m depth
Claim expansion and annual maintenance
Dunfee Gold-Silver Project
Location and History
The Dunfee Gold-Silver Project is located in west-central Esmeralda County, Nevada, approximately 50 km south-southwest of Goldfield and 5 km southeast of the historic town of Gold Point. The property lies on the southwestern flank of Mount Dunfee, at approximately 2,000 metres above sea level, in typical Great Basin topography.
The area is part of the historically productive Gold Point (formerly Hornsilver) Mining District, first discovered in the mid-1860s. While early mining focused on near-surface high-grade hornsilver (AgCl, AgBr), deeper workings encountered native gold. A series of shafts on the Dunfee vein suggest small-scale historic production, with dump sizes indicating possible output of 5,000–15,000 ounces of gold, although no official records are available.
Geological Potential
The Dunfee property covers a 1.5 km-wide domal uplift believed to be associated with a shallow apophysis of the Sylvania pluton, a quartz-monzonite intrusive. The local geology includes Precambrian Wyman metasediments, Reed Dolomite, and intrusions of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous rhyolite dikes. These rocks are structurally disrupted and host a number of N70W- to W-trending quartz-gold-silver vein systems.
Gold mineralization improves where the quartz veins transition from metasediments into underlying intrusive rocks — a phenomenon observed regionally. Assay results from the Dunfee site have returned:
0.1 to 1.0 ounces per ton (opt) gold
1 to 10 opt silver
48% of surface samples show ore-grade values
Dump material and mapped structures outline a 1 km long vein system, with widths of 1–2 metres and potential for additional parallel systems.
The broader dome is hypothesized to host a porphyry-style gold system, with potential for 80–100 million tonnes of mineralized rock at 0.015–0.02 opt Au and 1.0–1.5 opt Ag — making Dunfee a high-potential early-stage target.
Further work may include:
Detailed mapping and sampling
Geophysics and RC drilling to 250 m depth
Claim expansion and annual maintenance