Cuprite
Gold-Silver Project
An early-stage project over a district-scale epithermal alteration system, 20 km south of Goldfield.
2,892ha
Land package
376claims
Unpatented lode claims
3,069m
Drilled by StrikePoint in 2024
4of 5
Holes with anomalous Au-Ag
Overview
Searching Below a Steam-Heated Cap
StrikePoint acquired Cuprite from Orogen Royalties and through additional staking. The property overlaps a large area of steam-heated advanced-argillic alteration, similar to the alteration exposed above AngloGold Ashanti’s Silicon deposit near Beatty.
StrikePoint considers Cuprite an early-stage, non-core asset. There is no current exploration program, and the Company is maintaining key claims in good standing.
- Location
- Esmeralda and Nye Counties, about 20 km south of Goldfield
- Coordinates
- 37°33′00″ N, 117°09′30″ W
- Ownership
- 100% StrikePoint
- Land package
- 2,892 ha in 376 unpatented lode claims
- Royalty
- 3% NSR to Orogen Royalties; 0.5% buyback for $2.5 million
- Status
- Early-stage, non-core; no current exploration program
Geology & concept
A District-Scale Epithermal System
Cuprite sits in the Goldfield segment of the Walker Lane, near the northwestern margin of the Southwestern Nevada Volcanic Field.
5 × 2
km alteration zone
The property surrounds an area of advanced-argillic and argillic alteration about 5 km north-south by 2 km east-west. Opal and chalcedony in porous, leached rock point to a steam-heated setting above the ancient water table.
Its size and intensity suggest boiling of near-neutral fluids at depth, a key mechanism for forming low-sulphidation epithermal gold-silver deposits beneath the paleo-water table.
Discoveries beneath similar alteration
Silicon
About 75 km southeast · AngloGold Ashanti
Discovered in 2019 by drilling beneath a large zone of barren advanced-argillic alteration.
Eastside
About 80 km northwest
Gold-silver mineralization drilled beneath steam-heated alteration centred on rhyolite flow-domes.
Information on the Silicon and Eastside deposits is from third-party public disclosure that the Technical Report authors could not verify, and is not necessarily indicative of mineralization on the Cuprite property. Gold and silver mineralization is not known to be present at current levels of exposure at Cuprite.
2024 drilling
The System Carried Precious Metals
Five angled RC holes, 3,069 m in total, all reached Cambrian basement. Four intersected anomalous gold and silver at depths of 270 m to 570 m.
| Hole | From (m) | Length (m) | Au (g/t) | Ag (g/t) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SKP24-001 | 362.71 | 12.19 | 0.46 | 10.10 |
| including | 364.24 | 6.10 | 0.74 | 14.75 |
| SKP24-002 | — | No significant intercepts | — | — |
| SKP24-003 | 271.27 | 4.57 | 0.17 | 1.97 |
| SKP24-004 | 397.76 | 6.10 | 0.21 | 4.15 |
| SKP24-005 | 475.49 | 9.14 | 0.19 | 5.95 |
| including | 478.54 | 4.57 | 0.29 | 9.13 |
Selected intervals from StrikePoint’s June 4, 2024 news release, converted to metres. Additional lower-grade intervals were reported in SKP24-003, SKP24-004 and SKP24-005; see the Technical Report for the full table. The relationship of drilled interval lengths to true thickness is not known.
Maps
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Documents
Reports & Projects
Scientific and technical information on this page is derived from the Updated Technical Report on the Cuprite Gold-Silver Project, Nye and Esmeralda Counties, Nevada, USA, dated June 24, 2026 (effective May 14, 2026), prepared by Bryan A. Kellie, C.P.G., and Steven I. Weiss, C.P.G., PhD, who are independent of StrikePoint.