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Gold Prospecting
Metal Detecting for Gold
Is This A Reef?
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 586777" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Reefs are layers of hard rock (although many prospectors confusingly use the term synonymously with quartz vein - reef is better abandoned as a term as it is not a scientific term). Faults are fractures in rock along which the opposite sides of the fractures have moved relative to each other (up, down, horizontally or somewhere in between). Joints are fractures along which the opposite sides show no significant movement relative to each other. Quartz veins are layers of quartz and they usually occupy faults or joints (fluids have pumped through these fractures and deposited quartz from hot, watery solutions - it does not squeeze in like toothpaste as some prospectora think).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 586777, member: 4386"] Reefs are layers of hard rock (although many prospectors confusingly use the term synonymously with quartz vein - reef is better abandoned as a term as it is not a scientific term). Faults are fractures in rock along which the opposite sides of the fractures have moved relative to each other (up, down, horizontally or somewhere in between). Joints are fractures along which the opposite sides show no significant movement relative to each other. Quartz veins are layers of quartz and they usually occupy faults or joints (fluids have pumped through these fractures and deposited quartz from hot, watery solutions - it does not squeeze in like toothpaste as some prospectora think). [/QUOTE]
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