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<blockquote data-quote="shivan" data-source="post: 158686" data-attributes="member: 194"><p>The sulphides at the area i was in were pyrites, though there are quiet a few different sulphide minerals.</p><p>I am not sure of its significance as i am still learning all about this. But the gold seems to have originally been in the sulphides and was released and concentrated as other processes occurred. </p><p>This was in a geological report on the place i was at:</p><p>"Free gold occurs in the oxidised zones, but as far as present is known, not in the sulphide zones. The pyrites of the sulphide zone yield on assay 2-24 dwt. of gold per ton, the bulk of the mineral being of poor quality, rarely exceeding 2 dwt. per ton. This information was supplied by the mining men of the field.</p><p>The surface gold was contained in a variety of gossan, and was at times coarse in nature. Throughout the lode the gold occurs in irregularly distributed patches, and as films coating divisional rock planes. Very often no trace of gold is to be seen in the solid rock between these gold covered jointings.</p><p>From this it seems evident that the sulphides contained the gold, and that the surface waters reduced the auriferous pyrites to iron oxide, free gold and various soluble products."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shivan, post: 158686, member: 194"] The sulphides at the area i was in were pyrites, though there are quiet a few different sulphide minerals. I am not sure of its significance as i am still learning all about this. But the gold seems to have originally been in the sulphides and was released and concentrated as other processes occurred. This was in a geological report on the place i was at: "Free gold occurs in the oxidised zones, but as far as present is known, not in the sulphide zones. The pyrites of the sulphide zone yield on assay 2-24 dwt. of gold per ton, the bulk of the mineral being of poor quality, rarely exceeding 2 dwt. per ton. This information was supplied by the mining men of the field. The surface gold was contained in a variety of gossan, and was at times coarse in nature. Throughout the lode the gold occurs in irregularly distributed patches, and as films coating divisional rock planes. Very often no trace of gold is to be seen in the solid rock between these gold covered jointings. From this it seems evident that the sulphides contained the gold, and that the surface waters reduced the auriferous pyrites to iron oxide, free gold and various soluble products." [/QUOTE]
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