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Hotspot #3 · NV-2026-054

Winnemucca

Humboldt County · Nevada

0.84 Model score
Medium Held-out district

Every one of the twelve recorded deposits falls within the highest-scoring tenth of the withheld region, and the median deposit ranks in the top 1%. The class-coded records mix gold-quartz vein and polymetallic types in equal number. The score is carried with the caveats below rather than as a clean target.

Ranked prospectivity surface for the Winnemucca 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.

Held-out performance

Winnemucca sits in Northwestern Nevada, the region withheld before any modelling began and scored once, at the end. These figures measure prediction on ground the model had never seen.

  • Known deposits in the top 25% of ranked ground 100%
  • Known deposits in the top 10% of ranked ground 100%
  • Median deposit rank, against all ranked ground top 0.9%
  • Peak score in district 0.836

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

Next best measurement

Lower priority where the target is epithermal Au-Ag. If polymetallic Au-Ag is in scope, walk Pride of the Mountain (scored 0.679) and Winnemucca Mountain Mine (0.644). Aeromagnetic drone survey deferred pending confirmation of the deposit class.

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 Winnemucca district, from terrain at the bottom through the evidence layers and combined prospectivity to ranked drill targets at the top.
Winnemucca 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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