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The Quartz Mountain mineral
system can be classified as a low-sulfidation
epithermal deposit based on the characteristic
mineralogical suite of adularia, cinnabar and
stibnite. The characteristic geometry and
bonanza vein occurrences associated with low-sulfidation
systems have not been recognized at Quartz Mountain
because resource delineation has been focused
on the shallow parts of the system that favour
the bulk-mineable or disseminated gold concentrations.
The low-sulfidation epithermal model seems to
best explain the distribution of gold, characteristic
boiling textures in the veins and mineralogy at
Quartz Mountain. This model implies that
there is a potential for discovering high-grade
bonanza veins that provided fluid pathways for
the large volumes of gold-bearing fluids that
created the system.
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