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Gold & Its Association With Ironstone
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 519852" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>I definitely would not have said that gold was not a place to look for gold - there have been million ounce orebodies found in them all around the world, including in Victoria. And as I said I have written on them (researched them in detail). Either I explained something poorly, or you misread, or possibly it was in the context of a specific area (eg in some areas the dykes are later than the gold - so not a good place in themselves to look for gold). Yes, Amherst, some of the bigger producers at Maryborough, Walhalla (Long Tunnel/Cohens), Woods point (Morning Star, A1), even Diamond Creek and Reedy Creek-Clonbinane near Melbourne and part of the ore at Fosterville, have gold ore bodies in the dykes (much more so than outside the dykes in the adjacent sedimentary rocks). In fact, more than one in five of the gold-antimony ore bodies north of Melbourne are mostly confined to dykes.</p><p></p><p>Thinking back, I suspect it might have been a discussion of Bendigo, where the "lamprophyre" (monchiquite) dykes that cut through the anticlines in the gold mines are more than 200 million years younger than the gold deposits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 519852, member: 4386"] I definitely would not have said that gold was not a place to look for gold - there have been million ounce orebodies found in them all around the world, including in Victoria. And as I said I have written on them (researched them in detail). Either I explained something poorly, or you misread, or possibly it was in the context of a specific area (eg in some areas the dykes are later than the gold - so not a good place in themselves to look for gold). Yes, Amherst, some of the bigger producers at Maryborough, Walhalla (Long Tunnel/Cohens), Woods point (Morning Star, A1), even Diamond Creek and Reedy Creek-Clonbinane near Melbourne and part of the ore at Fosterville, have gold ore bodies in the dykes (much more so than outside the dykes in the adjacent sedimentary rocks). In fact, more than one in five of the gold-antimony ore bodies north of Melbourne are mostly confined to dykes. Thinking back, I suspect it might have been a discussion of Bendigo, where the "lamprophyre" (monchiquite) dykes that cut through the anticlines in the gold mines are more than 200 million years younger than the gold deposits. [/QUOTE]
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