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<blockquote data-quote="jethro" data-source="post: 599326" data-attributes="member: 1297"><p>Its a bit hard to explain, but the lode channel ( I wont call it a Vein ) dips about 75 degrees to the east as it goes down (dip) it stikes <strong>sub</strong> parellel to the bedding plane of the country rock, I think this type of fault is called a tension gash. The old fellas opened up a cut wide enough for them to work in and take out the lode about 4ft, but over the years the hanging wall has collapsed onto the footwall and left a solid platform to stand on while I dig out what they left as too narrow to bother with. I wont be getting down into the stope as it is just too dodgy</p><p>I dolly'd a bit of ore today and got a nice tiny little tail of ultra fine gold in the dish, probably didnt wash more than 100 grams of -60 mesh.</p><p>There is another more defined reef on a top of a ridge 2 gullies over that is very similar in stucture but it runs parralel to the bedding plane of the country rock but is displaced by several cross faults as it goes up the hill. The enrichment seems to be on the reef intersection with the crossfaults. <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" />ickshovel: </p><p></p><p> :goldpan: :goldnugget:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jethro, post: 599326, member: 1297"] Its a bit hard to explain, but the lode channel ( I wont call it a Vein ) dips about 75 degrees to the east as it goes down (dip) it stikes [b]sub[/b] parellel to the bedding plane of the country rock, I think this type of fault is called a tension gash. The old fellas opened up a cut wide enough for them to work in and take out the lode about 4ft, but over the years the hanging wall has collapsed onto the footwall and left a solid platform to stand on while I dig out what they left as too narrow to bother with. I wont be getting down into the stope as it is just too dodgy I dolly'd a bit of ore today and got a nice tiny little tail of ultra fine gold in the dish, probably didnt wash more than 100 grams of -60 mesh. There is another more defined reef on a top of a ridge 2 gullies over that is very similar in stucture but it runs parralel to the bedding plane of the country rock but is displaced by several cross faults as it goes up the hill. The enrichment seems to be on the reef intersection with the crossfaults. :pickshovel: :goldpan: :goldnugget: [/QUOTE]
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