The Golden Gate property is centred on an exposure of the upper plate siliclastic rocks of the Vinini Formation hat is bounded by the Cortez fault system to the west and the Northern Nevada Rift to the east. A series of northeast trending, steeply dipping reverse faults transect the property and are coincident with anomalous, albeit low level, gold, arsenic and mercury soils suggesting these structures provided channel ways for mineralized hydrothermal fluids.  

The presence of lower plate carbonaceous lithologies that host the major Goldrush, Cortez and Pipeline deposits has been noted in a single drill hole collared near the northern boundary of the claim block.  The confirmation of Carlin-style host rocks, the diagnostic chemical signature and proximity to known multi-million ounce deposits all suggest the Golden Gate property is worthy of additional exploration work.

Future exploration will focus on defining deep drill targets by analysing the relationship between the productive structures, geochemical anomalism and possible geophysical signature of buried Carlin-style deposits.