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Metal Detecting for Gold
Beginners Detecting Mistake..."Walking away from gold too soon."
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 656195" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Historical common usage (not sure of this agrees with Wal's usage, but I feel these old terms can confuse people - there is nothing magical about them - in the historical literature anyway)</p><p></p><p>Quartz blow - a bloody big lump or wall of quartz sticking out of the ground</p><p>Stringer (reef) - a pissy thin little quartz vein</p><p>Reef - something in between the above in size.</p><p></p><p>Historically they were just used to denote size.</p><p></p><p>Some others related to attitude eg verticals, floors, or to shape eg saddle reef, or to a real hot-potch mixture of many little veins eg spurs, or to the rock they occurred on eg leatherjackets (the enclosing rock looked like leather), or their attitude relative to the bedding in the enclosing rock eg bedded.</p><p></p><p>There were some other terms, favoured by one particular 19th C GSV geologist (Herman?), that were mostly in his head and related to his usually incorrect theories. A classical case of thinking from a pre-conceived theory rather than observing and only then creating a theory from the observations. "Droppers" comes to mind. I groan when his are the only historical records available on a goldfield.</p><p></p><p>I mention these to help those reading 19th Century reports.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 656195, member: 4386"] Historical common usage (not sure of this agrees with Wal's usage, but I feel these old terms can confuse people - there is nothing magical about them - in the historical literature anyway) Quartz blow - a bloody big lump or wall of quartz sticking out of the ground Stringer (reef) - a pissy thin little quartz vein Reef - something in between the above in size. Historically they were just used to denote size. Some others related to attitude eg verticals, floors, or to shape eg saddle reef, or to a real hot-potch mixture of many little veins eg spurs, or to the rock they occurred on eg leatherjackets (the enclosing rock looked like leather), or their attitude relative to the bedding in the enclosing rock eg bedded. There were some other terms, favoured by one particular 19th C GSV geologist (Herman?), that were mostly in his head and related to his usually incorrect theories. A classical case of thinking from a pre-conceived theory rather than observing and only then creating a theory from the observations. "Droppers" comes to mind. I groan when his are the only historical records available on a goldfield. I mention these to help those reading 19th Century reports. [/QUOTE]
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