Quartz Vein near known placer producing area

[StreamlineGold]

Figured i would share..if you look at the pic up the side of this hill there is a somewhat pitted out reddish brown change in the rock strata with quartz stringers that looks interesting..i plan on checking this out next time when i have some more gear on me..right across the creek where im standing is a lot of tailings piles and old water pipes evidence if some placer mining going on in years

 

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[goldenIrishman]

Couldn't hurt! That placer gold had to come from somewhere after all.

 

[dave wiseman]

Looks like a stockworks from that picture.

 

[StreamlineGold]

Not sure what you mean by stockworks like a stock photo?

 

[Alex Burke]

Stockwork is technically "A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped, especially common with tin ore." So basically the rock has impregnated a vein system breaking it up and creating pockets of mineralization if I understand it correctly.

 

[StreamlineGold]

Got ya!

 

[huntsman53]

Either someone has worked above the larger rock outcroppings or the loose rocks and dirt are evidence of a rock slide. No matter which, if there is Gold in the rock outcropping or above it, it would be a good idea to do some serious sampling of loose material at the base below the outcroppings.


Frank