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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 414467" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>It depends where you are. For example, in places liken the Eastern Goldfields of WA there is deep weathering preserved from back in the Cenozoic (when it was wet and warm), it is quite likely that it can have been leached. But you would not be seeing fresh rock but your quartz veins would be in clay, or in soft weathered rock, probably with ironstone spread around. Sometimes we drill to 10 to 30 m (drill "refusal") before we see gold values.</p><p></p><p>In the highlands of Eastern Australia, the uplift has created topographic relief and the old Cenozoic weathering surface is partly to totally stripped, so fresh rock is exposed. Complete removal of gold is unlikely.</p><p></p><p>And of course, most quartz reefs never contained significant gold, and those that do only contain it in specific sections.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 414467, member: 4386"] It depends where you are. For example, in places liken the Eastern Goldfields of WA there is deep weathering preserved from back in the Cenozoic (when it was wet and warm), it is quite likely that it can have been leached. But you would not be seeing fresh rock but your quartz veins would be in clay, or in soft weathered rock, probably with ironstone spread around. Sometimes we drill to 10 to 30 m (drill "refusal") before we see gold values. In the highlands of Eastern Australia, the uplift has created topographic relief and the old Cenozoic weathering surface is partly to totally stripped, so fresh rock is exposed. Complete removal of gold is unlikely. And of course, most quartz reefs never contained significant gold, and those that do only contain it in specific sections. [/QUOTE]
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