CREG 

 

Ralph J. Roberts 

CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN 

ECONOMIC GEOLOGY (CREG) 

Director - Tommy B. Thompson, Research Professor  
Graduate Research Assistants Supported by CREG  
    Greg Ferdock, UNR Dept. of Geological Sciences  
    Sarah Hartman, UNR Dept. of Geological Sciences  
    Gavan Heinrich, UNR Dept. of Geological Sciences  
    Cosmos Lettich, UNR Dept. of Geological Sciences  
    Mike Ressel, UNR Dept. of Geological Sciences  
    Jill Schilling, UNR Dept. of Geological Sciences  
    Lori Shallow, UNR Dept. of Geological Sciences  
    Kelli Weaver, UNLV Dept. of Geoscience  
    Michiko Shigehiro, UNLV Dept. of Geoscience  
    Zhiping Li, UNR Dept. of Geological Sciences  
CREG Sponsors  
 
UNR Department of Geological Sciences U.S. Geological Survey
Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology Public Resource Associates
Cordex Exploration, Inc.  Independence Mining Co., Inc. 
Barrick Goldstrike Mines, Inc. Newmont Exploration Ltd.  
Vista Gold (Granges) Placer Dome U.S., Inc.  
Getchell Gold Corp.  Kennecott Exploration Co. 
Pittston Nevada Gold Co. Kinross Gold Corp. 
Cambior Exploration USA, Inc.  BHP Minerals 
Aur Resources Uranerz U.S.A., Inc.
Echo Bay Mines  Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corp.  
Royal Gold, Inc.
   

1997 Activities 

CREG is a partnership established in mid-1996 between the Minerals Industry, U.S. Geological Survey, Nevada Bureau Mines & Geology, and the Department of Geological Sciences, UNR. Its purpose is to provide funding for graduate education in Economic Geology and to focus on research related to ore deposits. The practical training of graduate students as well as their interaction with industry geologists provides an experience that is not common in university programs. 

The 1997 calendar year was the first full year of CREG research activity. Ten funded projects highlight the year's activities. Projects focused on regional as well as detailed individual ore system studies and are listed below. Research reports were included in an Annual Research Meeting-1997 volume of 150 pages provided to all sponsors. Donations from sponsors totaled $193,250.00. 

1997 CREG-funded Projects  

Jean S. Cline, Kelli Weaver, & Michiko Shigehiro: "Source and Paragenesis of Ore-stage Metals and Sulfur in Carlin-type Gold Systems, Getchell and Turquoise Ridge, Nevada" 

James Trexler, Jr. & Cosmos Lettich: "High-resolution Stratigraphy of Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Strata, Wells to Carlin Transect" 

James Trexler, Jr. & Mira Kurka: "Biostratigraphic Laboratory, 1997" 

Jill Schilling, Lori Shallow, Gina Tempel & Tommy Thompson: "Refractory Ores at the Rain Mine, Elko County, Nevada: Structural Controls, Wallrock Alteration, Petrographic and Geochemical Studies" 

Gregory C. Ferdock (and advisors): "Geochemistry, Mineralogy and the Distribution of Hydrothermal Alteration and its Affects on Engineering Characteristics of the Host Lithologies in the Regions Exterior to the Main Betze Gold Deposit of the Goldstrike Gold Deposit, North-Central Carlin Trend, Northeastern Nevada" 

Sarah O. Hartman (and advisors): "The Use of Acoustic Drill Hole Data in the Structural Analysis of the Turquoise Ridge Orebody, with Applications in Exploration for Other Carlin-type Orebodies" 

Michael W. Ressel (and advisors): "Petrology and Geochronology of Igneous Rocks of the Carlin Trend, Nevada: Possible Links to Sedimentary Rock-hosted Gold Mineralization" 

Maria Woitsekhowskaya: "Geochemical Modeling of Carlin-type Deposits" 

Zhiping Li: "Database of Chinese Carlin-type Gold Deposits" 

Steven I. Weiss, Frank W. Dickson, & Thomas Lugaski: "Development of a Systematic, Archival Collection of Carlin-type Ores and Related Rocks" 

Tommy Thompson: "Geologic Studies at the Deep Star mine, Carlin Trend" 
 

Presentations & Publications  

Ferdock, G.C., Castor, S.B., Leonardson, R.W., and Collins, T., 1997, Mineralogy and Paragenesis of Ore Stage Mineralization in the Betze Gold Deposit, Goldstrike Mine, Eureka County, Nevada, at Society of Economic Geologists "Carlin-Type Gold Deposits Field Conference", Elko, NV, 16-18 October 1997 (presentation by S. Peters, U.S. Geological Survey): published in: Society of Economic Geologists Guidebook Series, v. 28, p. 75-86.