Proceedings, Great Basin Evolution and Metallogeny: Geological Society of Nevada 2010 Symposium

Abstract

Roger Steininger and Bill Pennel, editors. Pp. 1191. DEStech Publications, Inc. ISBN 978-1-60595-040-2. Price: CD-ROM $40.00, hardcover $190.00. Every five years, the Geological Society of Nevada organizes a symposium that includes technical sessions, field trips, and short courses. The 2010 symposium was the sixth in this series, which started in 1987. Each symposium has included a published compilation of papers that accompanied the oral presentations. These compilations have served as excellent reference material for economic geologists worldwide, not only for the many excellent deposit and district descriptions and regional syntheses, but also for the treatment of geological and geochemical processes that take place during the evolution of mineralizing systems. The volumes are particularly relevant to geologists active in the Great Basin province of the western United States; more than 75% of the material is dedicated to treatment of deposits, districts, regional geology, stratigraphy, tectonics, metallogeny, and geophysics of this region. About 60% of the papers are gold/precious metals-related, with more than one-half of these dedicated to Carlin-type deposits, which is not surprising, considering that >60% of U.S. gold production is sourced from Carlin-type deposits (Cassinerio and Muntean). A hardbound edition is available in addition to the CD, and is identical to the CD version. The 2010 proceedings contain 62 papers; most support oral presentations, including those given by two keynote speakers, William Dickinson and Jonathan Price, and additional papers are included that accompany various poster presentations on display at the symposium. The papers are grouped based on deposit descriptions (Carlin-type, intrusion-related, volcanic-related epithermal, “young” precious metals), metallogeny, tectonics, case histories, and exploration technologies. There are catch-all groupings, including “Outta the Box” in Volume 1 and “Rumor from the Bush” in Volume 2, and the poster papers are grouped together in one section of Volume 2. The following paragraphs offer comment on several of the noteworthy papers. …