Great Western has 8 distinct claim groups in Nevada targeting both precious metals and base metals. Please explore each claim group and use the table below to see the different stages of exploration and subsequent evolution. Feel free to contact us with any questions you might have and we will be happy to help.
The Huntoon Copper Project is a group of five copper prospects at various stages of the exploration pipeline that all lie within a 6 km radius circle centred on the northeastern end of the Huntoon Valley, in Mineral County, Nevada.
The prospects include:
Please refer to the individual pages for details of exploration at each prospect.
The overarching HCP concept was developed in 2023 after the discovery of the Crowne Point granite at the heart of the West Huntoon project. The large intrusions of the area, the Whiskey Flat Granite and the Huntoon Valley Granodiorite were geochemically fingerprinted and found to be fertile for porphyry style mineralisation.
The geology of the Huntoon Copper Project is that of late paleozoic-mesozoic host rocks (Permian Mina Formation and Jurassic Dunlap Formation) intruded by a dismembered Cretaceous igneous suite comprising weakly peraluminous and weakly adakitic granites, granodiorites and diorites. The most recent phases involve substantial post mineral cover of Tertiary (Cainozoic) volcanic sequences, and recent sediments collecting in tectonic basins. The latter structures have formed as a result of movements on the Mina Deflection, a left lateral transtensional belt which crosses the Walker Lane at a high angle. Tilting relating to these movements have affected the mineralised unit.