卡林型金矿床主要分布在北美大盆地地区科迪勒拉造山带、科罗拉多地台和我国扬子地块西南缘的板内古生代 -中生代沉降带和西北缘古生代 -中生代冒地槽。

• The Carlin-type gold deposits are mostly found in the Cordillera orogen and Colorado platform, Great basin region of North America and Paleozoic-Mesozoic intra-block depressed zone at the southwest margin of the Yangtze block and miogeosyncline northwest of the Yangtze block.