Its probably true that......

[FiresEye]

It's probably true that......

SO it's probably true that quartz veins from hardrock with streaks and channels of materialized stuff in them( from the gold belt of N-GA, contain some gold.. Even no matter how little.
What I'm getting at is, that those quartz mineral streaks will almost always show native gold even in tiny microscopic ammounts, because gold is local in the area.. .Right? Just like they also show up pyrite veins in the quartz.. and I've heart pyrite gold veins are loaded with extremely tiny gold( impossible to pan)
It's just that I have all these mega cool quarts veins showing all sorts of minerals like garnet, pyrite, magnetite, etc. And would like to be able to say that since they came from a gold producing area, that they are the source of the gold.
I'm going to try and set up several informative North Georgia Geology displays at some colleges, and have an appointment scheduled to meet with a professor to ask questions, and donate some rocks for the classes.

Thanks- Fire

 

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[Astrobouncer]

Re: It's probably true that......

If you don't mind or have some free time, I would love to see some pictures of those specimens as well. I often find garnet inclusions, or some other mineral inclusion in an igneous rock, but rarely more then one at a time.

 

[Darshevo]

Re: It's probably true that......

Makes sense to chase your host rock up the creek while paying close attention to your over hangs, cliffs and side walls. On the other side of the coin where I live there is considerable evidence that placer gold comes from erosion that occured 1000's of years ago far far away from the placement location during an event known as the Missoula floods. A good knowledge of the geology of your area is key. Could be what you are finding was washed in from 100's of miles away by flood or glacier action.

After being told by so many people to 'look for gold where gold was found' I have taken to using the MRDS database to look for lode deposits in then general area of known placers. This accomplishes a few goals. The 2 most important are that it gives you an idea of how far to chase the source of your placer and secondly it gives you an idea of where to look for placer material (down a drainage below a known lode occurrence).

If no known lode occurrence's are in your area try to chase the geology to where the primeval rivers ran to track it back to its source.

-Lance

 

[FiresEye]

Re: It's probably true that......

If you don't mind or have some free time, I would love to see some pictures of those specimens as well. I often find garnet inclusions, or some other mineral inclusion in an igneous rock, but rarely more then one at a time.

Well I don't have the camera to do it justice. My avatar is actually waymore intricate than it apears, with visible crystalization of many minerals and nice layers of intraveinous quartz and conglamorates.

 

[FiresEye]

Re: It's probably true that......

Takoda- Oh yeah
Darshevo- THanks for the info... Although in my area, I find it hard to believe any rock could travel more than several miles. But it's possible. Epsecially gold bearing rocks... they tend to get found


Also- if anyone lives in North Atlanta I could easily meet you somewhere close to show you and discuss the rocks samples. I have tons of garnet mica shists mixed with quzarts, and some other cool sandstone/magnetic rocks