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Gold Prospecting
Gold localities & information
Anyone know of large bodies of water that have gold deposits
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<blockquote data-quote="silver" data-source="post: 590537" data-attributes="member: 1953"><p>Sound like Witwatersrand Basin had special circumstances with the meteor crater and all.</p><p>I think what Nirvanadirt is imagining is the lake wave action causing shelving (unrelated to creeks and streams), pulling away at the sides of a known gold area and concentrating gold in a band on a high shelf that extends around the margins of a lake that would have been ephemeral in nature because of glaciation(ie-the giant gold pan)... and thereby overlooked in the natural thinking that drives the search for gold. Some gold however would be found down newer small creeks that cut through the shelf.. just an assumption on my part though.</p><p>And maybe much smaller in nature than the Witwatersrand Basin and it's phenomenal output. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="silver, post: 590537, member: 1953"] Sound like Witwatersrand Basin had special circumstances with the meteor crater and all. I think what Nirvanadirt is imagining is the lake wave action causing shelving (unrelated to creeks and streams), pulling away at the sides of a known gold area and concentrating gold in a band on a high shelf that extends around the margins of a lake that would have been ephemeral in nature because of glaciation(ie-the giant gold pan)... and thereby overlooked in the natural thinking that drives the search for gold. Some gold however would be found down newer small creeks that cut through the shelf.. just an assumption on my part though. And maybe much smaller in nature than the Witwatersrand Basin and it's phenomenal output. :P [/QUOTE]
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Anyone know of large bodies of water that have gold deposits
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