Gold in copper ore

[jimmygoat]

I thought I would share some pictures of some unexpected gold we found while drilling for copper. The zone above and below this gold assayed only a trace. Comes from N. Cal.

[Astrobouncer]

Thanks Jimmy, that's a beauty.

[3xflyfisher]

Thats good looking mineralization in your sample. Any other metals besides Cu and Au?
Curious, is this from surface drilling and if so how deep are you? Or is this underground stoping operations?
Regards,
3xflyfisher

[Doug Watson]

Thats a nice problem to have in your drill cores. Thanks for the pictures. Doug.

[jimmygoat]

Thanks for the responses guys. 3x, silver is another mineral. some assays show 70gr./ton ag. The core in the picture came from 55ft. Surface drilling. Funny thing is the icp tests shows only a trace of gold yet we have seen it twice in the core. There are also over 20 thousand ounces of gold in the tailings pile that was blown out during the floatation process for copper in the old days. Thats what I want to exploit.

[3xflyfisher]

Jimmygoat,

Thats cool. Is any of the Au in the tailings recoverable by gravity methods, maybe a jig or spirals? Or are you going to have to go down a chemical route to recover the values? Some of those old floatation tailings can be nightmares to process.

Good luck with this endevor!

3xflyfisher