{"id":9813,"date":"2026-08-09T23:53:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/?p=9813"},"modified":"2026-08-09T23:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:56:33","slug":"the-missing-piece-of-world-class-cortez-gold-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/the-missing-piece-of-world-class-cortez-gold-district\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Piece of World-Class Cortez Gold District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"max-width:650px; margin:0 auto; padding:0 10px; box-sizing:border-box; font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6; color:#333333; -webkit-text-size-adjust:100%; -ms-text-size-adjust:100%; mso-line-height-rule:exactly; display:block;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">World renowned<\/span> geologist<\/strong> and <strong>Westward Gold (CSE: WG) Chairman Dr. Quinton Hennigh<\/strong> believes that <strong>WG&#8217;s 84 sq km Toiyabe District<\/strong> is a <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>critical<\/strong><\/span>, <strong><span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">missing<\/span> piece<\/strong> of the <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>world-class<\/strong><\/span> <strong>Cortez <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\">Gold<\/span> District<\/strong> that <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>physically shifted<\/strong><\/span> due to <strong>tectonic movement<\/strong>. While working as a <strong>senior research geologist<\/strong> for <strong>Newmont<\/strong> in 2007, <strong>Dr. Hennigh <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">conducted<\/span><\/strong> a <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>palinspastic reconstruction<\/strong><\/span> of the <strong>Great Basin<\/strong>. This <strong>geological method<\/strong> essentially <strong>&#8220;<span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">undoes<\/span>&#8221; millions of years<\/strong> of <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>crustal stretching<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>faulting<\/strong><\/span> to see where <strong>landmasses<\/strong> originally sat.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\">Through this <strong>mapping<\/strong> he <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>concluded<\/strong><\/span> that <strong>WG&#8217;s Toiyabe District<\/strong> is a <strong><span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">rifted<\/span> part of the Cortez area that <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">broke off<\/span><\/strong> and <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>shifted away<\/strong><\/span> from the <strong>main complex<\/strong> over time. If you <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>slide<\/strong><\/span> the <strong>Toiyabe<\/strong> block back to its <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>original<\/strong><\/span>, <strong><span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">pre-extended<\/span> position<\/strong>, it sits <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>directly alongside<\/strong><\/span> the <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>multi-million-ounce<\/strong><\/span> <strong>Cortez Complex<\/strong>. Because they were once <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>connected<\/strong><\/span>, <strong>Westward Gold (CSE: WG)&#8217;s land package<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">shares the exact same<\/span> regional structural<\/strong>, <strong>magmatic<\/strong>, and <strong>stratigraphic system<\/strong>. This includes <strong>WG&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>SSD Target<\/strong> <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>sharing key attributes<\/strong><\/span> with <strong>Barrick&#8217;s Fourmile Deposit<\/strong>, the <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>largest high-grade <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\"><strong>gold<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong> discovery<\/strong><\/span> of the century!<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Westward Gold Toiyabe District and Cortez Gold Complex\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/westwardgold84sqkmdirectlyadjacentnevadacortezgoldcomplexbarrickfourmile.jpg\" style=\"display:block; width:100%; max-width:600px; height:auto; margin:0 auto; border:0;\" width=\"600\"><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\">So just because <strong>WG<\/strong> might <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>not<\/strong><\/span> have <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>near-term development\/production potential<\/strong><\/span> like <strong>Xali Gold (TSXV: XGC)<\/strong>, <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>doesn&#8217;t<\/strong><\/span> mean that <strong>WG <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">won&#8217;t<\/span><\/strong> become among our <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">best performing<\/span> <span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\">gold stocks<\/span><\/strong> of all-time.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:14px 0 0;\"><span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><em>Past performance is not an indicator of future returns. NIA is not an investment advisor and does not provide investment advice. Always do your own research and make your own investment decisions. NIA has received compensation from WG of US$60,000 cash for a six-month marketing contract. NIA is receiving compensation from XGC of US$75,000 cash for a six-month marketing contract. This message is meant for informational and educational purposes only and does not provide investment advice.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World renowned geologist and Westward Gold (CSE: WG) Chairman Dr. Quinton Hennigh believes that WG&#8217;s 84 sq km Toiyabe District is a critical, missing piece of the world-class Cortez Gold District that physically shifted due to tectonic movement. While working as a senior research geologist for Newmont in 2007, Dr. Hennigh conducted a palinspastic reconstruction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,9,297,362],"class_list":["post-9813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-b","tag-gold","tag-wg","tag-xgc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9817,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813\/revisions\/9817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}