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Can relate to that, no geologist but being it's my daily office always a pleasure to go to work.
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WalnLiz
In remembrance, April 2024
This is another way gold can get moved around that doesn't conform with the usual methods....
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That is insane!
Wonder how long is has sat like that!?
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This is another way gold can get moved around that doesn't conform with the usual methods....
Should track him back to his nest ,might have a whole collection there.
WalnLiz
In remembrance, April 2024
Have found several small pieces on ant nests in WA...just not sure if the ants dug them up from below or carried them to the nest like in the vid....
Was out in the Talbot area last week and visited the big Quartz reef outcrop there reputed to be the largest in Victoria.
No workings nearby to indicate that it shed any gold but some early miners had a go a sinking a shaft alongside but seemingly did not find anything of significance as it is all grated up now
The nearest signs of workings would be several hundreds of metres away, so big quartz obviously doesn't mean big gold or even any gold in the immediate vicinity.
Perhaps the gold is too finely disseminated in such a large body or the fluids which deposited the reef did not have any gold in them or if they did took the gold away to deposit in smaller veins some distance away.
Worth a look if in the area but be careful of the track up to the reef as it is steep, rutted and gravelly and requires a bit of care negotiating..
No workings nearby to indicate that it shed any gold but some early miners had a go a sinking a shaft alongside but seemingly did not find anything of significance as it is all grated up now
The nearest signs of workings would be several hundreds of metres away, so big quartz obviously doesn't mean big gold or even any gold in the immediate vicinity.
Perhaps the gold is too finely disseminated in such a large body or the fluids which deposited the reef did not have any gold in them or if they did took the gold away to deposit in smaller veins some distance away.
Worth a look if in the area but be careful of the track up to the reef as it is steep, rutted and gravelly and requires a bit of care negotiating..
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