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Gold/Mining/Energy : ECHARTERS -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: smokey w. who wrote (3260)	2/10/2000 4:32:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3744

It means that there is some iron in the quartz that, along with greenschist facies minerals like chlorite and sericite (that indicate the right temperature of vein formation),is always good to see. The presence of gold is always revealed by gold as the best indicator. Then you form the theory of how it got there, obviously. Gold is the last mineral to come in in archean and proterozoic veins, usually right after Galena. It often finds it way into the fractures in the pyrite and will grind out. No conclusion can be drawn as to the grade of a vein solely from appearance but it helps if it is in an axial shear on a major break and looks mineralogically and structurally like other area gold deposits. EC<:-}