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Gold Prospecting
Metal Detecting for Gold
Gold definitions - "Alluvial", "Eluvial", "Colluvial" etc.
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 647858" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>Is it possible then that alluvial, eluvial and colluvial gold can all be found in the one spot as terms such as those refer to the mechanism of transport and deposit not just how far gold is from its source. </p><p>Another thought is if you have a small quartz speci just broken off a reef and laying nearby on the surface is it eluvial? Then the next day it rolls down the slope into a flatter area is it colluvial? Could it be considered either one or the other or both like schrodingers cat.</p><p>Maybe we are splitting rabbits, or hares, actually I meant hairs.</p><p>The best of us will have a geologically informed instinct for how gold travels once it is released from a reef and the how can become the where.</p><p>A definition involving the mechanism of transport and deposit is best for that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 647858, member: 4728"] Is it possible then that alluvial, eluvial and colluvial gold can all be found in the one spot as terms such as those refer to the mechanism of transport and deposit not just how far gold is from its source. Another thought is if you have a small quartz speci just broken off a reef and laying nearby on the surface is it eluvial? Then the next day it rolls down the slope into a flatter area is it colluvial? Could it be considered either one or the other or both like schrodingers cat. Maybe we are splitting rabbits, or hares, actually I meant hairs. The best of us will have a geologically informed instinct for how gold travels once it is released from a reef and the how can become the where. A definition involving the mechanism of transport and deposit is best for that. [/QUOTE]
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Gold Prospecting
Metal Detecting for Gold
Gold definitions - "Alluvial", "Eluvial", "Colluvial" etc.
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