Stateline Project, Iron County, Utah
KA Gold’s Stateline project is located in the northeast part of the Stateline District, Iron County, Utah, approximately 90 kilometers west of Cedar City, Utah. Stateline is a >40 km2 epithermal gold-silver vein district that straddles the Nevada-Utah border, and encompasses dozens of small mines that developed over 20 major quartz-calcite-adularia gold-silver veins. The Project exhibits geologic and hydrothermal characteristics similar to other large volcanic-hosted gold deposits (e.g. Round Mountain, Denton-Rawhide, NV; Castle Mountain, CA) associated with rhyolite flow-dome complexes.
The Stateline project is centered on the historic Gold Dome mine that exploited the Grand Central vein. Several other major veins partially transect and bound the project area. Rhyolitic volcanic wall rocks (rhyolite domes, flows, tuffs) between the major veins exhibit extensive silicification, brecciation, stockwork, and hydrothermal breccias. Sampling at the Gold Dome mine by KA Gold in 2018 returned high values of 35.5 gpt Au and 257 gpt Ag from vein material on mine dumps. Historic drilling at the Johnny mine, 1 km southwest of Gold Dome, intersected a 1.5 meter thick west-northwest-trending quartz vein that assayed 42.5 gpt Au.
Geologic mapping and rock-chip sampling (382 samples) by KA Gold in 2019 identified numerous, high quality, drill targets. Sampling at the Gold Dome mine returned high values of 35.5 gpt Au and 257 gpt Ag from vein material on mine dumps. Significant results from this exploration campaign are summarized below:
· Highest Au values (up to 67.4 gpt) are concentrated in veins and workings along Rice Canyon in the NE part of the district and are hosted by variable silicified rhyolite flows.
· Ag values are widely anomalous and do not vary as much as gold values. The Creole mine, in the NE corner, contains the highest average grade (60.8 gpt Ag), whereas the Utah Spur contained the highest Ag grade value (649 gpt).
· Concentrations of strong phyllic alteration, quartz veining and pyrite in the area south of the Ofer mine and East to the Johnny mine suggest that this area is the center of the hydrothermal activity in the district. This center of hydrothermal activity may be the surface expression of an unexposed intrusive at depth.
Given the large hydrothermal alteration footprint, laterally-persistent gold-silver vein system(s), and favorable wall rock lithologies, the Stateline District has clear potential to host multi-million ounce gold deposits. KA Gold’s Stateline project has excellent potential for both high-grade gold-silver vein deposits and bulk-mineable disseminated/stockwork type deposits similar to Round Mountain (>5M oz gold). The Stateline Project is on BLM-administered land, therefore permitting for drilling is straightforward and can be completed quickly. Please contact KA Gold for more information or press the link below to download a factsheet.
