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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
ancient and buried leads
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<blockquote data-quote="loamer" data-source="post: 94355" data-attributes="member: 981"><p>If this is an ancient creek/stream/river, the gold will usually be small alluvial. The rounded large sized quartz is a usually stacked around these sites in the 1,000s, in fact 10,000s and was hardly ever crushed. the old timers knew a thing or two. Also, by looking down the shaft, this layer of rounded quartz is usually some way off the bottom, indicating it is a far later layer of debris. Throughout the Victorian fields, this stuff is a dime a dozen and is usualy used to decorate garden beds, road side verges and the like. Possible there is gold - I however would follow the oldtimers lead and just not waste the time. If you are talking about quartz in current running water - then OK, its still close to original source and the matrix may contain small particles of gold. If you are talking about quartz smashed out of reefs, thats worth a look too. Conglomerate though is worth a look.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="loamer, post: 94355, member: 981"] If this is an ancient creek/stream/river, the gold will usually be small alluvial. The rounded large sized quartz is a usually stacked around these sites in the 1,000s, in fact 10,000s and was hardly ever crushed. the old timers knew a thing or two. Also, by looking down the shaft, this layer of rounded quartz is usually some way off the bottom, indicating it is a far later layer of debris. Throughout the Victorian fields, this stuff is a dime a dozen and is usualy used to decorate garden beds, road side verges and the like. Possible there is gold - I however would follow the oldtimers lead and just not waste the time. If you are talking about quartz in current running water - then OK, its still close to original source and the matrix may contain small particles of gold. If you are talking about quartz smashed out of reefs, thats worth a look too. Conglomerate though is worth a look. [/QUOTE]
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