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Did Goldfield X Produce Detectable Gold? What Is A "Goldfield"?
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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast" data-source="post: 603607" data-attributes="member: 8209"><p>Evening B in B. </p><p></p><p>I'm sorry but I'm not able to help with a definitive 'what is a goldfield' answer. I thought it would have just been where they have found a 'significant' amount of gold. More so than just a larger than normal background reading. But no idea really. </p><p></p><p>As far as what they were finding the old mining reports and newspaper reports found on Trove can give some decent clues. </p><p></p><p>And Geovic and the different Google Earth overlays that you can get generally show placer or vein hosted. Generally shallow leads or the throw out piles of deep leads might be worth a try with the detector. Vein hosted - I tend to look at the depth of the workings. If they were working 100 + feet I tend to think that it is less likely to be worthwhile with a detector. But there would be definite occasions where that assumption would be proved wrong. </p><p></p><p>I have a question for you though. Those blue/yellow/green dots on your screen pic above - how did you get those there? I've tried to find drill data but can't. Is the data you show freely available somewhere? Is that a file you've over-layed on Google Earth or is it on GeoVic and you've then chosen the 'Show area on Google' option or whatever it is called? </p><p></p><p>Thanks, N.E.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast, post: 603607, member: 8209"] Evening B in B. I'm sorry but I'm not able to help with a definitive 'what is a goldfield' answer. I thought it would have just been where they have found a 'significant' amount of gold. More so than just a larger than normal background reading. But no idea really. As far as what they were finding the old mining reports and newspaper reports found on Trove can give some decent clues. And Geovic and the different Google Earth overlays that you can get generally show placer or vein hosted. Generally shallow leads or the throw out piles of deep leads might be worth a try with the detector. Vein hosted - I tend to look at the depth of the workings. If they were working 100 + feet I tend to think that it is less likely to be worthwhile with a detector. But there would be definite occasions where that assumption would be proved wrong. I have a question for you though. Those blue/yellow/green dots on your screen pic above - how did you get those there? I've tried to find drill data but can't. Is the data you show freely available somewhere? Is that a file you've over-layed on Google Earth or is it on GeoVic and you've then chosen the 'Show area on Google' option or whatever it is called? Thanks, N.E. [/QUOTE]
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