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What Rocks would be of interest (photo)
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<blockquote data-quote="Minelab Gold" data-source="post: 283203" data-attributes="member: 8504"><p>Hi Westaus,</p><p></p><p>If you study the area and have access to geological maps and other documentation for the specific area - especially determining the actual mine name you were looking at it will be of some help to assist in your findings. </p><p></p><p>As we know gold in reef, host rock etc is usually associated with iron ore, iron oxide, iron pyrite - all the heavy materials. And travels with in many cases quartz, silica - gold is not always found with quartz but often is - remember quartz is the second most abundant mineral on the planet from memory feldspar is above it. </p><p></p><p>It can be associated with many different host rocks because gold is so stable over a wide range of conditions - its often associated in quartz veins because of the abundance of quartz within the earth during the period of intense metamorphism and intrusion of the igneous rocks.</p><p></p><p>Anyone wanting to increase their knowledge base and obtain some extremely inspirational footage - watch all of the video's on this channel </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcZXBMeHSw-4BwOfVQPK_g" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcZXBMeHSw-4BwOfVQPK_g</a></p><p></p><p>All the best and happy prospecting - hopefully you can get a geologist to look at the image and advise rock types/findings</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Minelab Gold, post: 283203, member: 8504"] Hi Westaus, If you study the area and have access to geological maps and other documentation for the specific area - especially determining the actual mine name you were looking at it will be of some help to assist in your findings. As we know gold in reef, host rock etc is usually associated with iron ore, iron oxide, iron pyrite - all the heavy materials. And travels with in many cases quartz, silica - gold is not always found with quartz but often is - remember quartz is the second most abundant mineral on the planet from memory feldspar is above it. It can be associated with many different host rocks because gold is so stable over a wide range of conditions - its often associated in quartz veins because of the abundance of quartz within the earth during the period of intense metamorphism and intrusion of the igneous rocks. Anyone wanting to increase their knowledge base and obtain some extremely inspirational footage - watch all of the video's on this channel [url]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcZXBMeHSw-4BwOfVQPK_g[/url] All the best and happy prospecting - hopefully you can get a geologist to look at the image and advise rock types/findings [/QUOTE]
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