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Hard Rock Gold Prospecting
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<blockquote data-quote="grubstake" data-source="post: 409707" data-attributes="member: 4012"><p>More seriously:</p><p></p><p></p><p>A continuous thin vein of mineralised quartz (usually with ironstone) and possibly some visible fine gold. At surface, such a vein was often located in the vicinity of alluvial gold (perhaps traced by loaming surface soil samples) and hence appeared to be a possible source of the eroded, alluvial gold.</p><p></p><p></p><p>By excavating the bedrock using hand tools and muscle: pick, shovel, hammer and rock chisel, pry bar, sledge-hammered drill rod, supplemented with explosive charges (probably gunpowder in the early 1860's), to fracture the rock.</p><p></p><p></p><p>By following the promising leader into the solid rock until it widened into an area of mineralised quartz containing visible nuggety gold.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Mineralised quartz containing visible gold, the more the better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grubstake, post: 409707, member: 4012"] More seriously: A continuous thin vein of mineralised quartz (usually with ironstone) and possibly some visible fine gold. At surface, such a vein was often located in the vicinity of alluvial gold (perhaps traced by loaming surface soil samples) and hence appeared to be a possible source of the eroded, alluvial gold. By excavating the bedrock using hand tools and muscle: pick, shovel, hammer and rock chisel, pry bar, sledge-hammered drill rod, supplemented with explosive charges (probably gunpowder in the early 1860's), to fracture the rock. By following the promising leader into the solid rock until it widened into an area of mineralised quartz containing visible nuggety gold. Mineralised quartz containing visible gold, the more the better. [/QUOTE]
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