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Gold/Mining/Energy : SOUTHERNERA (t.SUF)
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To: Elizabeth Andrews who wrote (6167)8/22/2000 2:35:59 PM
From: russet  Read Replies (1) of 7235
 
It is thought (by smarter people than I) that the glaciers running and pillaging throughout our lands would have busted up and spread any existing alluvial deposits ( but did they get them all? Perhaps some are buried under glacial till-one would have thought that someone digging for gravel might have stumbled on one by now though, but perhaps not-it's a very big country. Maybe our roads are truly lined with diamonds like Jean de Crooked says!?!). It is possible as well that the climate in the 50 or so million years since these pipes etc, burped up their spew was not active enough (cold and desert-like as opposed to tropical rain forest) to allow such alluvial deposits to form in significant concentrations to allow their easy detection. Many of the remains of our diamond containing pipes and dykes are now under lakes which are frozen many months of the year, and not subject to much river action.

These aforementioned great thinkers (thought not to be subject to brain farts like certain squished hamsters have frequently) have concluded that such climate and geological history probably accounts for the failure to find any diamond alluvial deposits in North America, that are found frequently in the more tropical and alluvially active regions of the world such as Southern Africa, and the equatorial regions of South America.

Then again,...why do we have economic alluvial concentrations of gold and other minerals in B.C. and Alaska? What is different about these things. Perhaps Sesame Street knows (gggggggggggggggggg).

Edit, Hello Mr. teevee,...I see you have similar thoughts. Slow day today with stockwatch down, allowing my mind to wander around. If you see it, please grab it and tell it to get back ASAP (ggggggggggggggggg).
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