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Welcome stranger, wldn't believe it etc nuggets y are they not in reef
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<blockquote data-quote="Nirvanadirt" data-source="post: 590656" data-attributes="member: 20080"><p>I'm new on the forum so inn gonna be asking all kinds of weird and sometimes silly questions in a feeble attempt to wrap my head around this whole gold geology subject (reckon it'll take a few more hours on the net, maybe a book or two, another half dozen questions on here and I'll be up to speed with it all and at least at a BD if not masters degree in geology standard of ????????) but as promised I stupidly digress,</p><p>So we all know of the giant nuggets through history like the welcome stranger, the one that the kid kicked on a walking track the size of a cricket ball, you know the ones - like the one I'll post in a few months! Well as I understand it these are all "squished" out of quartz reefs or other rock deposits that run in veins and are followed by folk like us after finding a gold vein in said rock. Does that mean that there are 400mm wide gold veins that are sitting in quartz somewhere in the ground waiting to be found or spat out by nature over time? </p><p>Do large scale mines follow giant veins underground? If not what is the average size (to simplify let's imagine the gold as a cylindrical vein) of a mid range producing commercial mine? The size of a coke can that narrows and widens as it goes? A roll of life savers?</p><p>How is it that we crush quartz to extract powder and little grains from a vein where as there might be a football nugget 20m away and a foot under the top soil? I know that this is a multi faceted question but it's one that I need to tick off for my masters degree ? Cheers guys n gals for any clarification on this phenomenon of big next to tiny (albeit very rarely)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nirvanadirt, post: 590656, member: 20080"] I'm new on the forum so inn gonna be asking all kinds of weird and sometimes silly questions in a feeble attempt to wrap my head around this whole gold geology subject (reckon it'll take a few more hours on the net, maybe a book or two, another half dozen questions on here and I'll be up to speed with it all and at least at a BD if not masters degree in geology standard of ????????) but as promised I stupidly digress, So we all know of the giant nuggets through history like the welcome stranger, the one that the kid kicked on a walking track the size of a cricket ball, you know the ones - like the one I'll post in a few months! Well as I understand it these are all "squished" out of quartz reefs or other rock deposits that run in veins and are followed by folk like us after finding a gold vein in said rock. Does that mean that there are 400mm wide gold veins that are sitting in quartz somewhere in the ground waiting to be found or spat out by nature over time? Do large scale mines follow giant veins underground? If not what is the average size (to simplify let's imagine the gold as a cylindrical vein) of a mid range producing commercial mine? The size of a coke can that narrows and widens as it goes? A roll of life savers? How is it that we crush quartz to extract powder and little grains from a vein where as there might be a football nugget 20m away and a foot under the top soil? I know that this is a multi faceted question but it's one that I need to tick off for my masters degree ? Cheers guys n gals for any clarification on this phenomenon of big next to tiny (albeit very rarely) [/QUOTE]
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Welcome stranger, wldn't believe it etc nuggets y are they not in reef
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