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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 671907" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>Have attached some info on indicators. Indicators were thin fluid channels that ran parallel with the rock strata. Being differently coloured because of mineralization they were easily recognised within the rock strata. Where they intersected reefs the gold was often found to be nuggety a fact not wasted on the old timers.</p><p>In Ballarat and other places once concentrations of gold in a reef were found to be associated with these thin but recognisable seams within the rock, miners often abandoned sinking or driving on the quartz and mined along the indicator seeking places where other quartz reefs were intersected and rich patches could be expected.</p><p>However if these two intersected at low angles, or with reefs faulted along the indicator plane, that could be consistent with what 20x described as his mates experience.</p><p>Ballarat Gold would have been working on the same line as “the indicator” which stretched from Black Hill in the north to Sovereign Hill in the south.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]10932[/ATTACH][ATTACH]10933[/ATTACH][ATTACH]10934[/ATTACH][ATTACH]10935[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 671907, member: 4728"] Have attached some info on indicators. Indicators were thin fluid channels that ran parallel with the rock strata. Being differently coloured because of mineralization they were easily recognised within the rock strata. Where they intersected reefs the gold was often found to be nuggety a fact not wasted on the old timers. In Ballarat and other places once concentrations of gold in a reef were found to be associated with these thin but recognisable seams within the rock, miners often abandoned sinking or driving on the quartz and mined along the indicator seeking places where other quartz reefs were intersected and rich patches could be expected. However if these two intersected at low angles, or with reefs faulted along the indicator plane, that could be consistent with what 20x described as his mates experience. Ballarat Gold would have been working on the same line as “the indicator” which stretched from Black Hill in the north to Sovereign Hill in the south. [ATTACH]10932[/ATTACH][ATTACH]10933[/ATTACH][ATTACH]10934[/ATTACH][ATTACH]10935[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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