? gold types and locations ?

[aussiefarmer]

So i am just wodering is gold usually random or does course or nuggety gold usually be on its own or is there usually fine gold with it ? And vise verser i understand there will be no one rule for every spot but if i am detecting and get course gold espeacialy the smooth type would panning give me fine gold aswell ?

 

[silver]

I read somewhere that the course gold found shedding down hill from a decomposing reef should equal the fine gold in the same area/shedding,... sorry I can't provide a source, as I'm just going off what subconscious is giving up to the cause.

 

[Guest]

As far as I am aware and I am no expert AF. Gold shedding from a reef will start to round off or become smoother within a relatively short distance. As it travels it looses mass, which I assume is what they find when they loam. I could only imagine the amount of fine gold that was concentrated in the paleo channels, which was later tied up in conglomerates and was either processed as conglomerate or has decomposed and is making its way down hill to the gully's once again.

 

[aussiefarmer]

I am glad you understood the question as i had a few brandies before hand
So generally in a nuggety location the only fine gold will be be shed from the nuggets

 

[silver]

Black bottle brandy ?

 

[aussiefarmer]

Nah bit of napoleon rare french brandy , i dont mind a bit on ice , its like injector cleaner gives ya a good tune up by sterilizing your gizzards.
Tullamore dew iznt to bad either but neither of them is much good for typing posts :lol: theres plenty of mistakes in what i posted last night :lol:

 

[SWright]

G'Day All

There are two types of nuggety gold. Coarse gold from a reef system that shed down hill and nuggets that actually grow in certain types of soil. The coarse gold from the reefs is also a result of weathering processes where the gold reef is above the water table and oxidises. Gold nuggets far from any reef system generally form in laterite type soil as in many areas of WA. There are rare locations where coarse visible gold is the primary gold in unoxidised reefs. The amount of fine gold will vary in almost every case. It is worth knowing however that geologists regard any gold that you can see without a hand lens as coarse gold.

Araluen

 

[jethro]

Geologists arent' the only ones that regard anything that can be seen without a lens as coarse. I get very animated if I can see gold in the reef.
I even like seeing this under the usb microscope.

 

[BigWave]

Great pic Jethro. I've done the same.