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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: 648007" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>Auriferous reefs are usually not exactly vertical and dip in one direction or another or are even flat reefs emanating from the main reef line.</p><p>Looking at the current location of a reef outcrop we have to imagine that any gold that shed from its former upward extension should have been dropped on the side opposite to the dip of the reef.</p><p>Given that possibly many hundreds or even thousands of feet of rock have been eroded over the eons, the exact place of drop could be offset by many hundreds of feet also.</p><p>This could put the gold derived from that reef into an altogether different drainage system to that which would be below the remains of the reef today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 648007, member: 4728"] Auriferous reefs are usually not exactly vertical and dip in one direction or another or are even flat reefs emanating from the main reef line. Looking at the current location of a reef outcrop we have to imagine that any gold that shed from its former upward extension should have been dropped on the side opposite to the dip of the reef. Given that possibly many hundreds or even thousands of feet of rock have been eroded over the eons, the exact place of drop could be offset by many hundreds of feet also. This could put the gold derived from that reef into an altogether different drainage system to that which would be below the remains of the reef today. [/QUOTE]
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Gold Prospecting
Metal Detecting for Gold
Gold definitions - "Alluvial", "Eluvial", "Colluvial" etc.
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