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To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (80886)	1/18/2002 10:28:44 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116753

Might it be they were first discharged from a volcano?

To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (80886)	1/19/2002 3:54:17 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116753

aha -- my field. ahem the proto formation or successive encrustation of nuggettae auriferum per annum, in streamum goldum somewhere in the forest. long ago. It goes like this. a tiny grain of gold, (we have to start somewhere and gold is a good place) starts to like its surroundings. It is encased in ice, where all living forms of tax collection have long ceased. Carbonic acid has increase to unbearable levels, and the solubility of auriferous species of cations is decidely low. At this allotropic moment a rare intercommunication of ions happens and at the insistence of an exsolving arsenic ion, all the gold ions at once joins hands and electrically plate out on +/- regions of the nascent nugget in streamus profundus Le viola! a huge whackin' gold stone. 22 million years later the foreman of Sutter's mill decides to sluice the tail race and the rest is Battleship Row. ************** (It might be true) Most nuggets are formed by extremely hot water boiling as it ascends cracks in rock near mafic mud volcanoes 5,000 feet below the ocean's surface, 2.8 billion years ago. Don't ask me why. It has to do with spotted rock where feldspar and quartz phenocrysts have segregated and blobs of andesite oozing from vents and apophyses of acid (high silica) rocks. Quartz and gold melt at the same temperature. Iron must be there too. Arsenic is not necessary but it helps. A lot. There is always mica, chrome mica, iron mica. Sericite is often present. Potassic rocks are nearby. Qtz feldspar porphyry is ubiquitous. The volcano is underwater. It is andesitic but not alpine. It is part of an island arc chain. Pillow lavas abound on the hanging wall. The pyrite is high temperature. The quartz is high temperature. There is often galena. Second to last mineral to be emplaced. There may be seven phases of mineral emplacement, only one of them auriferous. There is usually high zinc. Copper may be prevalent too in high quantities. Carbon (MgCo3, CACo3 floods the area. So does silica. The fault is usually long and not necessarily part of a mountain building event. Now the fault is east west. It was north south. The rock is overturned and folded. Gold was the last mineral to be emplaced. Intrusives may not cut but may bend the vein. Vertical continuity is usually good, lateral poor. There was no air on the planet when the gold was emplaced. The vein is encased, usually by mafic rocks of a certain melting temperature. They are usually blue or green in colour, sometimes grey. Gold is rarely seen in the vein. Most mines look barren to the naked eye, practically everywhere you look. Visible gold is extremely rare. Assays of mine grade are extremely rare even on a gold property. The average assay on any mining property cannot be mined. Itis close to zero. If you get ahigh high gold assay on a property, Let me tell you apiece of wisdom. You know how people tell you "gold is everywhere, high assays do not a count, you can get those kind of assays if a little nugget happens to fall in the bag." etc. etc.. Do you want to know the truth? If you get over 0.25 ounces per ton in a random assay (you take the sample yourself not some guy selling you the property) ... THERE IS GOLD THERE, MISTER. AND THAT IS A FACT. If you get a really high assay like ten ounces or something like that, I would say, there is damn good gold there mister. And you can print that. ************* If you can SEE gold in a vein, IT IS RICH. That is called VG. Visible gold. It means the vein is rich. There is no point in assaying such a vein. Don't do it. It will not assay properly. It will assay always too low unless you get ucky. Assay only where you cannot see gold in the vein. The richest gold vein seen on the surface in the history of the world occured in near Sault Ste. Marie Canada. It was found in 1924 by an Irishman called Blaine. It was 1/2 inch thickness of pure gold and was 22 feet long. It was found on the surface and at the 100 foot level. I, Eric Charters, swear these facts to be true. So I do believe. I used to own the surrounding claims upon which for 1.5 miles had been found continuously gold assays at the surface. Near one thousand feet in one direction and the same distance to depth it ran 1/2 ounce by 500 assays of drill core. I never could convince anyone to try mining in that area. Do you know how much the average, promoter, geologist or investor knows about gold, its habits, occurrence, and the likelihood of mining it at a profit from indications of continuity, and richness of surface assays or drilling? Sweet Fuck All. That is both a blessing and drawback. EC<:-}