Complex local structures include S-, E-, W-, and SE-plunging folds, an E-striking strike-slip fault, and a N-trending reverse fault.

Gold zones are hosted in separate S-plunging anticlines close to faults and not in folds in other orientations.

An E-striking triangle zone across the eastern Nadaleen trend probably influenced Au-rich ore fluid migration.

Local structures and the triangle zone may have been influenced by the subsurface ancestral Dawson fault.

The eastern Nadaleen trend gold zones are structurally similar to Carlin-type deposits in Nevada.