Buried Gold in Alaska

[geowizard]

Hi Guys and Gals,

I'm just a "Greenie" here on this forum but... I am here to share some "valuable" info! You can read the introductory stuff over on the Geophysics Forum.

Mother Nature has produced most of the GOLD and she buried it. Buried GOLD and other precious metals remain scattered all over the World and most of our fellow members of TreasureNet would like to get their hands on it.

I have been fortunate enough through a life of "life-long-learning" to have been in the right places at the right time to be gifted with snippets of knowledge that have brought me here.

A combination of events and innate prospecting skills with an instinct for sniffing out Gold brought me to Alaska. After a short season diggin' Gold on East Beach in Nome, and almost getting washed out to sea, I scurried over to Central Alaska and spent twelve years diggin' Placer Gold and buying more diesel so I could dig more placer Gold. My curiosity kept me wondering where in the heck did the 70,000 ounces of previously produced placer Gold come FROM at Ophir Creek.

The combination of earlier skills learned back in the Texas Tea, Black GOLD rush of the late 1970's and into the early 1980's prompted an answer in the form of Geophysical exploration. The methods and the tools have improved with the revolution in computer technology over the past 40 years. Can that technology be applied to finding buried Gold and other precious metals today? Hmmm....

The short answer is, "Yes".

Stick around and find out how!

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

Most of Alaska is buried under Tundra, brush. sediments and mud. You can be standing on a gold nugget and not even know it.

The State of Alaska knows it is running out of Oil. It needs to develop the minerals and mining industry. The State has spent literally millions of dollars surveying the many mining districts to provide prospectors and exploration companies with "DATA". The data shows where to dig for Gold and other precious metals.!

There's more! The data shows how much (quantity) and how good (quality) of the Gold or other precious metals. I have personally spent thousands of hours in the winter months each year over ten years interpreting data and pinpointing "Anomalies" that represent new undiscovered Gold and other precious metal deposits. The deposits vary in types of mixes of copper-silver-gold.

The data speaks:

The data represents a response exactly like a common discriminating metal detector. The data is calibrated and based on scientific methods well known in the art of metal detecting. The surveys are planned and conducted by leading scientists in the industry.

In the final analysis, I have discovered gold where gold is known to exist. I have discovered gold where Gold is inferred to exist from current and past placer gold mining activity. I have discovered new gold deposits - never mined before. I have discovered gold deposits that represent the highest possible grades of gold.

I am only one man.

There's more. So, stick around!

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

How Conductive is "Conductive"?

We know metals and most minerals of interest are conductive... they "conduct" electricity in the form of an electrical current! A conductive ore body, also called a deposit that is detected by a helicopter flying ninety miles an hour one hundred feet above the ground having a survey foot print sixty feet across has MANY nuggets!

The "response" is the sum total of many nuggets including veins of gold, silver and copper and other metals and minerals.

The detector measures "Resistivity". Conductivity increases when resistivity goes down. We are looking for conductors! Good conductors have LOW resistivity. The lower - the better! Resistivity measurements of the earth vary from high values around twenty thousand ohms down to one thousand ohms or less.

The best conductors have VERY LOW resistivity.

Exploration companies get excited when they see resistivity values of 500 ohms or less. I get excited when resistivity values are less than ten (10) ohms. "Superconductors" have values less than one (1) ohm. This mineralization is a rare exception and worthy of a "happy dance". The limit is "zero" resistivity. I have found values that are less than 1.0 ohm and in the most exceptional cases range down to 0.09 ohm near Nome, Alaska.

That's a brief explanation of what is measured. It takes you to the next level! There are many websites that will give readers a deeper dive into the subject!

Don't go away! There's more!

- Geowizard

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Hi Guys and Gals,

I'm just a "Greenie" here on this forum but... I am here to share some "valuable" info! You can read the introductory stuff over on the Geophysics Forum.

Mother Nature has produced most of the GOLD and she buried it. Buried GOLD and other precious metals remain scattered all over the World and most of our fellow members of TreasureNet would like to get their hands on it.

I have been fortunate enough through a life of "life-long-learning" to have been in the right places at the right time to be gifted with snippets of knowledge that have brought me here.

A combination of events and innate prospecting skills with an instinct for sniffing out Gold brought me to Alaska. After a short season diggin' Gold on East Beach in Nome, and almost getting washed out to sea, I scurried over to Central Alaska and spent twelve years diggin' Placer Gold and buying more diesel so I could dig more placer Gold. My curiosity kept me wondering where in the heck did the 70,000 ounces of previously produced placer Gold come FROM at Ophir Creek.

The combination of earlier skills learned back in the Texas Tea, Black GOLD rush of the late 1970's and into the early 1980's prompted an answer in the form of Geophysical exploration. The methods and the tools have improved with the revolution in computer technology over the past 40 years. Can that technology be applied to finding buried Gold and other precious metals today? Hmmm....

The short answer is, "Yes".

Stick around and find out how!

- Geowizard

Hello sir. Do you know much about SILVER? It’s been awhile since we have had someone here that is knowledgeable about silver. However I like gold as well.

 

[Prairie Gazingfox]

Most of Alaska is buried under Tundra, brush. sediments and mud. You can be standing on a gold nugget and not even know it.

The State of Alaska knows it is running out of Oil. It needs to develop the minerals and mining industry. The State has spent literally millions of dollars surveying the many mining districts to provide prospectors and exploration companies with "DATA". The data shows where to dig for Gold and other precious metals.!

There's more! The data shows how much (quantity) and how good (quality) of the Gold or other precious metals. I have personally spent thousands of hours in the winter months each year over ten years interpreting data and pinpointing "Anomalies" that represent new undiscovered Gold and other precious metal deposits. The deposits vary in types of mixes of copper-silver-gold.

The data speaks:

The data represents a response exactly like a common discriminating metal detector. The data is calibrated and based on scientific methods well known in the art of metal detecting. The surveys are planned and conducted by leading scientists in the industry.

In the final analysis, I have discovered gold where gold is known to exist. I have discovered gold where Gold is inferred to exist from current and past placer gold mining activity. I have discovered new gold deposits - never mined before. I have discovered gold deposits that represent the highest possible grades of gold.

I am only one man. I need help!

There's more. So, stick around!

- Geowizard

So should I understand with those helicopters they are now in the process of mapping only "the best of the best" stripes of land?? Most promising land..How does depth calculate Into the assessment? For example after how many meters vertical depth, does the imagining become too vague to take into account for final broader geophysical assessment of Gold extraction? I wouldn't know but am thinking- for hardly explored areas- more than 7 or 8 meters down, it's 30 % chance to say for sure, at best..how wrong am I ??

 

[Crow]

Here is something that might be of interest.

Helicopters and aircraft have been used for years, helping pinpoint areas of high mineralization.

Drones (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs) are increasingly used for the detection of magnetic anomalies in prospecting
, representing a significant advancement in geophysical exploration. They are highly effective for mapping mineral deposits (such as iron ore, nickel, and copper) and identifying geological structures by flying low-altitude, high-resolution magnetic surveys.

Drones can fly 5–50 meters above ground level, which is much lower than manned aircraft, resulting in magnetic data that is often five times clearer than conventional aerial surveys.

Drones are ideal for surveying areas that are inaccessible or hazardous to ground crews, such as dense forests, steep mountainous regions, swamps, and contaminated sites. Drone-based surveys can be 4–10 times faster and up to 10 times cheaper than traditional ground-based methods. Drones use radar or laser altimeters combined with high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) to maintain a constant height above ground, which is essential for accurate magnetic mapping. But there is problems to overcome Post-processing techniques, including diurnial correction and noise filtering, are required to compensate for drone-generated noise.

While gold itself is not magnetic, it is often associated with geological structures (such as iron-rich formations, faults, or quartz veins) that have a distinct magnetic signature.

Crow

 

[geowizard]

So should I understand with those helicopters they are now in the process of mapping only "the best of the best" stripes of land?? Most promising land..How does depth calculate Into the assessment? For example after how many meters vertical depth, does the imagining become too vague to take into account for final broader geophysical assessment of Gold extraction? I wouldn't know but am thinking- for hardly explored areas- more than 7 or 8 meters down, it's 30 % chance to say for sure, at best..how wrong am I ??

These are the best questions! Thank you!

Every question is important. Each question can be a point of reservation where a reader is not quite satisfied in their mind about a concept or technical fundamental. I understand that reserved feeling! I have been there myself. It just requires a deeper dive!

With reference to the helicopters; The surveys are pre-planned by several of the top geophysical scientists in the State of Alaska. They are employees of the State and have to isolate themselves from the data in terms of any specific discovery. The scientists remain neutral without bias and are dedicated to collecting the most accurate data possible! The rest is up to the end user. That's where we come into the picture.

"To be transparent, I don't work for the State of Alaska and I am not buying or selling anything. I am an educator. Also known as a "Facilitator". MY wish and hope is to provide a bridge of understanding for prospectors and those who desire to learn more and maybe even go out and make their own discoveries."

There is work to be done. There are millions of square miles that contain GOLD and other precious metals deposits that do not qualify for investment by "Majors". The Majors are major mining companies with high cost corporate structures that feed on mega-mine mining projects!

My focus is on "easy money". Ask a simple question; How far and how deep would you go for a nugget?

One question causes 20 or 30 more questions. It depends on... In basic economic terms a one troy ounce nugget is worth $5000 today and a prospector/miner has to look at the cost. If the cost exceeds the value of the nugget less any residual cost of mining, then we make a decision to walk away. However, I digress.

Depth of the "Nugget":

An electromagnetic system having a frequency domain transmitter and receiver is the subject.

The transmitter is understood to have energy and that energy is absorbed and attenuated as it penetrates the earth materials within it's field. How far and how deep becomes a mathematical equation that is referred to as "skin effect"! We can avoid writing a book on the subject by accepting the fact that designers build hardware sufficient for the application combined with computing power to gobble up the "response" in real time and store that response with GPS position. The task can be described as monumental when we are acquiring ten samples per second flying along at 90 miles per hour in a helicopter over mountainous gold country in Alaska.

The short answer on depth is... The signal becomes weaker with depth and conductivity of the medium (earth). Prospectors are way above average! Only a few are computer geeks or advanced mathematicians. So, let's please not go there for now.

The samples are massive. There are multiple frequencies (five or more) being transmitted simultaneously from multiple transmitting coils mounted horizontally and vertically. The receiver coils mounted both horizontally and vertically 16 to 20 feet away are measuring the multiplicity of responses.

**** The response is measured for both inphase and quadrature phases. **** Two channels!

This allows for the system to produce DATA that gives a prospector DISCRIMINATION of conductors! In prospecting, Discrimination is a GOOD thing! Most of the mineral/metal deposits in the world are IRON. This requires a separate post on discrimination, Stay tuned for more on discrimination!

The DIGHEM system transmits a waveform hundreds of feet into the earth. It does all of the above in real-time day after day from one mining district to another. Not 30 percent. It's 100 percent!

Is 100 percent GOOD enough? As a general philosophical question, the answer depends on the end user and the demands of the end user. The usable foot print is 60 feet across. The line spacing is 1/4 mile or 1320 feet more or less between survey lines. There's space in-between lines! There IS missing DATA!

We begin to digress into what is missed rather than gaining appreciation for what IS gained as the take-away. The take-away is thousands of miles of measured survey data gained every day! A swath of Wild Alaska never before surveyed! It's FREE too. Cheap, Easy, Fast! Imagine swinging a metal detector on foot across a 60 foot swath over a thousand miles every day over swamps, lakes, rivers, creeks, bushy, brushy wild Alaska! argh...

Stick around!

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

The Helicopter;

I happen to be a Wild Alaska Bush Pilot among other things.

Helicopters are amazing machines, however they do have a sometimes but always FATAL limitation. The limitation has to do with a "push over". A push over maneuver is needed to follow terrain when doing normal survey operations. Rising terrain is followed by dropping terrain. The pilot is required to follow the contour of the terrain. He or she pushes the nose over (forward stick). The helicopter does as commanded. The rotor disk remains relatively flat as the helicopter nose tilts forward and downward. The rear of the helicopter tilts upward.

I wont go into what happens next. It's too graphic.

Terrain following maneuvers are the very best training and experience for new helicopter pilots. It keeps the pilot busy pulling and pushing the stick. The DATA gets FUZZY when the BIRD (the coil system) is not in close proximity of the ground that is being surveyed. End users become "mental" when the radar altimeter that measures the distance above the ground reads too high for valid (Good) data acquisition. FUZZY data is one of the trade-offs in the profession of flying a helicopter on a survey mission and going home at the end of the day.

Oh yes, there's more!

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

FUZZY DATA;

Fuzzy Data is like fuzzy math.

It almost, kinda, somewhat resembles the answer. End users of geophysical data need to be fussy! IF we are to be good at what we do, we must demand excellence. Excellence means accuracy in the data we use to interpret GOLD or other minerals and metals from that data. No exceptions! A good cook, a Chef is one fussy b-word. They have to be that way! Good food in equals good food out! Good data in equals good interp out!

The end-user of data MUST be a "critical thinker". Critical thinkers and the process of critical thinking is a learned skill. It means that we look at the numbers and begin to see the "truth" in the numbers. I refer to the data speaking. Is the data speaking the truth? Is the data fuzzy? We, the end users need to be inspectors. We need to inspect the data!

I have found, unfortunately, surveys that are full of bologna! Ask a critical thinking question. "Is it possible?"

In a prior life, I was responsible for downloading flight data from flight data recorders. I noticed certain aircraft sensor inputs were dead! OOPS! Further inspection found the sensors had been incorrectly installed. With my neck stretched out over the chopping block, I informed management of the issue.The airline had to shut down the affected airliners and properly install the sensors. Inspectors had not done their jobs. They got new jobs.

Be fussy about the data! Thank you!

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

Tesorodeoro,

Thank you for that question, Sir!

"Silver is my middle name, Silver is my game!" I love the luster of Silver! I discovered a Silver deposit one day while doing some recreational flying over Arizona. I scurried over to The Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources in Phoenix to learn that it was a Silver mine with a long history reaching back into the days of conflicts between Apaches and prospectors. They shipped rich Silver ore in freight wagons to El Paso Texas through Bandito infested desert.

I staked a few mining claims and got busy sampling some of the minerals scattered about the mine. One handy grab sample was an interesting hefty canary yellow and pale green piece weighing about a pound. I knew all of the assay companies around central Arizona. I got assays done on all of the samples. The Canary Yellow and Green sample assayed 360 troy ounces of Silver to the ton. It was Bromyrite.- a Silver Bromide Halide. There was a relatively large pocket of the Bromyrite exposed at the surface! A decade long mining campaign ensued. I became an assayer, although not registered, I bought a Perkin-Elmer AA spectrometer and began doing my own assays for pennies on the dollar with over-night service!

I negotiated and shipped a 200 ton test shipment to the Hidalgo Smelter in New Mexico. Silver was running $5.00 an ounce!

I refine Silver. buy scrap Silver, mine Silver, stock silver hoard silver!

Thanks again!

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

Here is something that might be of interest.

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Helicopters and aircraft have been used for years, helping pinpoint areas of high mineralization.

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Drones (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs) are increasingly used for the detection of magnetic anomalies in prospecting
, representing a significant advancement in geophysical exploration. They are highly effective for mapping mineral deposits (such as iron ore, nickel, and copper) and identifying geological structures by flying low-altitude, high-resolution magnetic surveys.

Drones can fly 5–50 meters above ground level, which is much lower than manned aircraft, resulting in magnetic data that is often five times clearer than conventional aerial surveys.

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Drones are ideal for surveying areas that are inaccessible or hazardous to ground crews, such as dense forests, steep mountainous regions, swamps, and contaminated sites. Drone-based surveys can be 4–10 times faster and up to 10 times cheaper than traditional ground-based methods. Drones use radar or laser altimeters combined with high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) to maintain a constant height above ground, which is essential for accurate magnetic mapping. But there is problems to overcome Post-processing techniques, including diurnial correction and noise filtering, are required to compensate for drone-generated noise.

While gold itself is not magnetic, it is often associated with geological structures (such as iron-rich formations, faults, or quartz veins) that have a distinct magnetic signature.

Crow

Crow,

I am eternally optimistic about technology, all things that fly and every conceivable tool including a few inconceivable tools! You are on top of it, Sir!

We are limited by the laws of Physics. As reality of time, speed, distance, mass of payloads, of hardware needed, complexity of software, battery capacity/weight ratios and fundamental, unavoidable systemic failures in a complex flying machine, the odds of success unfortunately begin to make the possible become impossible. I am frustrated by reality as it comes home to roost at my feet in a mass of wasted wreckage.

I am among other action verbs, a certificated Drone pilot and own a DJI mini3. Not much, but it flies and takes some awesome photos and videos! Oh. and it's paid for.

I could write a book and probably have about the need and desire to expand technology and airborne platforms for the purpose of collecting DATA for the further purpose of self enrichment. There is immense positive personal feedback in engineering and design of all of the products, systems and subsystems that not only can be but ARE interconnected and talk to each other but at the end of the day fall short of dreams and expectations.

I am with you! The not so easy part is accepting the fact of life that physics rules and a deep penetration airborne geophysical survey platform is out of reach of private individuals. The weight of add-ons combined with the limitation of lift to get it not just off the ground but survive high acceleration maneuvers out in woodlands and wild bus country where it is most needed creates a perfect storm where risk of failure wins over ambition. Argh...

 

[geowizard]

Crow,

We are on the same page! Thank you!

I would also share a comment for all interested parties on the value of magnetic data.

The magnetic field of the earth is rich in data. What does the data mean to the end user? The magnetic field is "perturbed" by structure primarily and rock types secondarily. It tells us more about what is NOT than what "IS". I have made many GOLD discoveries. Because GOLD as a metal is NOT magnetic, a magnetometer cannot detect GOLD directly. A magnetometer can by interpretation determine faults from fissures.

Sadly,

Quartz does not equal GOLD. We know Gold may be found in Quartz. There are millions (possibly zillions) of faults and fissures, millions of them contain quartz. There is a relatively very small percent of mineralized quartz veins. An even smaller percent of mineralized quartz veins contain GOLD. A smaller percentage that contain appreciable amounts of Gold to be of interest.

The quest for Gold and other precious metals can be attained through the use of tools that sense the presence of "conductive" mineralization and metals. IMHO.

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

Crow and all other interested members,

Thank you for that nice map of placer deposits in Alaska! It speaks volumes of the GOLD provinces that cross Alaska from Canada and out to the Aleutians and to Nome. In my years prospecting Alaska for GOLD, I have made a system of file directories on my laptop containing levels of deeper diving file folders that document many of those discoveries! I discovered previously undiscovered extensions of GOLD at the Big Hurrah Gold mine in the Council District east of Nome. Hold your horses, it's all owned by someone else. Argh...

Note also, the owners are oblivious to the Big Hurrah extensions.

My focus in recent years has been on finding NEW undiscovered GOLD extrapolating on existing (known) Gold discoveries. I have managed to do interpretation of ALL of the geophysical surveys done on every Gold Mining District in Alaska. Most recently finding extensions of the Donlin Gold deposit outside of the existing mining claim boundaries. OMG! emoticon.

As "they" say, there is more undiscovered GOLD than has ever been discovered and I can prove it.

Fun stuff!

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

Magnetic Imaging;

Magnetic imaging of the earth is useful in finding "structure". I will show in coming post many examples for reference!

Gold and other precious metals are electrically "conductive". The tool of choice is a metal detector. More specifically, a frequency domain metal detector - not a pulse induction (PI) detector. PI detectors can not discriminate Gold from Iron. There is an important technical reason for that.

Frequency Domain (FDEM) metal detectors use a continuous, single frequency sinusoidal (sine) wave that is transmitted by the coil and the response is measured and compared to the transmitted waveform. An FDEM metal detector can "discriminate" between metals!

Magnetometers measure the changes (perturbations) in the magnetic field of the earth.

The normally uniform magnetic field of the earth is changed by structural changes in rocks caused by folding, fracturing and any other event that changes the orientation of rocks for their original position. Rocks exhibit a a magnetic field because of "remnant" magnetism. That magnetism ads and subtracts from the magnetic field of the earth. Interpretation of magnetic data is best done by viewing a graph of the magnetic field given by a helicopter flying along a survey line. The magnetic field intensity is measured as a voltage and converted into digital data. The data is stored on a computer hard drive or similar storage hardware. GPS position data is stored at the same time. With data and location, maps can be produced. Parallel lines show changes that can be seen from one survey line to another extending over many miles that represent a fault zone. There are millions of fault zones. Only a small percent are mineralized. Only a small percent of mineralized fault zones contain gold of appreciable value!

FDEM data combined with magnetic data shows correlation of conductive mineralization with fault zones! Further interpretation of conductive mineralization shows WHERE GOLD can be found!

Stick around! There's more!

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

A profile of a line of magnetic DATA from Moore Creek in Alaska:

Can you see the faulting and the flat prairie land on each side? If so, you are on your way!

Can you see the GOLD?

NO? well...

Stick around! There's more!

- Geowizard

 

[Crow]

Moore Creek Mine focuses primarily on placer gold extraction, with secondary commodities including chromium, silver, tungsten, mercury, titanium, and zircon ores. This placer mine also contains hard rock gold deposits and has been worked for both ancient terrace gravels and modern stream alluvium. The gold-rich area stretches about two miles long and 300 to 1,300 feet wide, with gravels up to 20 feet thick.

Older terrace deposits are inferred to be Late Tertiary to early Pleistocene, based on similarities with other dated deposits in Interior Alaska, lending the area both geological significance and exceptional placer deposits, with gold nuggets up to 19 ounces having been found, though the gold’s fineness is relatively low.

Crow

 

[geowizard]

Crow,

What an awesome post!

A miner, Elmer Keturi mined there in the 1930's with his wife Hilder. The story is captivating and takes the reader back to a world most have never seen or imagined.

Trails and Tailings | An Alaskan Autobiography – Elmer F. Keturi

Moore Creek was my first test case. Moore Creek is included in the Iditarod Survey. Placer Gold mines are important because the Lode Gold is shallow. The Gold was eroded from the lode deposit near the surface to begin with. The survey shows anomalies on every survey line that crosses Moore Creek. I had this interpretation verified by a well known Geophysicist that was instrumental in the discovery of the Voiseys Bay discovery in Laborador.

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

Fissures;

With reference to Survey line L22470, The fissure that contains Gold and is visible over 40 miles and 160 survey line crossings is NOT visible on the Mag Data! Fissures are special in that they don't create a magnetic anomaly. A fissure is a crack in the crust. It forms a conduit for Gold laden hydrothermal solutions to rise to the surface and precipitate Gold!

- Geowizard

 

[geowizard]

The power of Geophysics;

Using Geophysical Data, an important discovery has been made at Moore Creek.

The Iditarod-Nixon Fork Fault extends from Iditarod to Nixon Fork. Iditarod is near Flat Alaska. Iditarod and Discovery are on Otter Creek. Otter creek and tributaries were the source of 1,500,000 troy ounces of placer Gold!

Nobody has discovered the LODE! I discovered the LODE

Bucket Line Dredges were brought in on sleds pulled by Teams of Draft Horses. A community of miners and all of the related business was built. Major mining companies have come and gone.

My investigation of the survey data took years to complete. Much of that work was automated to increase the amount of number crunching. I can cut and paste a survey line of data into an individual data base. The survey line may be 20 miles long (105,600 feet). At 12 feet per sample, that works out to 8.800 survey stations.

Calculations are done on each station on every survey line. I organize data using MS Excel and develop a database for each and every survey line. I create a template in Excel. Data is cut and pasted into the template. The template contains equations. As line data is pasted into the template, the template performs 8,800 calculations in microseconds giving a new column of GOLD content. I write high level software to create a Graphic User Interface (GUI). The GUI gives a picture of the quantity and quality - an assay of 8,800 survey locations. Each survey station has a precision (Differential) GPS location.

I scrubbed the line number to protect the innocent. Do you get the "picture"?

Resistivity (Red) and phase angle (black) at Moore Creek Alaska.

Fun Stuff!

Stick around! There's more!

- Geowizard

 

[Crow]

Moore creek has potential.

occasionally they find nuggets the size of golf balls.

The region is characterized by complex geology, often featuring Paleozoic sedimentary rocks, igneous intrusions, and associated metamorphic rocks. Regional studies in this area (like those for the nearby Illinois Creek/Water Pump Creek areas) indicate potential for gold-bearing quartz veins, shear-zone hosted mineralization, and carbonate-hosted silver-lead-zinc deposits.

Historical geological surveys by the DGGS have mapped the area to identify potential lode sources for the placer deposits, which are often found in metamorphic or intrusive complexes within this part of Alaska. The gold at Moore Creek is primarily associated with placer deposits, often occurring in stream sediments derived from the erosion of surrounding bedrock.Interesting you have researched the potential source. Some large bodies can be hiding in plain site.

Geowizard some interesting stuff you have posted. Have you teamed up with junior exploration miner for the more creek area are all under mineral exploration leases.

Crow