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Hotspot #2 · NV-2026-053

Gilbert

Esmeralda County · Nevada

0.77 Model score
Medium Training region · in-sample

Every one of the district's thirty-two recorded gold occurrences falls in the top quarter of ranked ground and twenty-nine in the top tenth, with the median deposit in the top 2.3% of ranked ground. Gilbert sits in the Walker Lane training region, so these figures measure fit rather than prediction. The anomaly is one coherent silicified body through the rhyolite in the centre of the district, with the recorded workings sitting on it.

Ranked prospectivity surface for the Gilbert district, with the district boundary and recorded gold occurrences overlaid.
Modelled prospectivity, brighter is higher. White outline is the district boundary, white circles are recorded gold occurrences. Colour is scaled against each district's own region.

In-sample performance

Gilbert sits in the Walker Lane training region, so these figures measure fit rather than prediction. They are published alongside the held-out districts, and labelled, because the distinction changes what the number means.

  • Known deposits in the top 25% of ranked ground 100%
  • Known deposits in the top 10% of ranked ground 91%
  • Median deposit rank, against all ranked ground top 2.3%
  • Peak score in district 0.769

Bars run from 0 to 1. Median rank is shown as the share of ranked ground the median deposit outranks.

Next best measurement

Walk the silicified centre between Mammoth and the Monte Cristo workings, where the anomaly runs continuous across ground carrying no recorded occurrence. Aeromagnetic drone survey, 5 × 5 km AOI, 50 m line spacing, one flying day.

Evidence stack

Every family of evidence enters as its own layer. Read from the bottom up: each layer, then the combined prospectivity surface, then the ranked drill targets and proposed drone survey blocks at the top.

Exploded evidence stack for the Gilbert district, from terrain at the bottom through the evidence layers and combined prospectivity to ranked drill targets at the top.
Gilbert district, evidence stack. Ranked drill targets and drone survey blocks sit on the top layer.

The full brief covers the logic chain, deposit type, nearest known analog, local geology, data density and coordinates.

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