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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (1307)	11/9/1997 9:00:00 PM
From: Diamond Daze	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3744

Bill thank you for the geology lesson. I am always learning and appreciate your response. I will say that being a from Washington and living very close to the Grand Coulee area I never thought about a flood causing these so called desert dirt plays. Much different end here it washed everything away while cutting the george. As far as the specialist goes I dont know but it frickin near took me a month to find out this wasnt the IPM thread here. I sure dont wanna go read all those too. Just a little comedy it makes my day just to come here and read and respond. Thanks again!

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (1307)	11/10/1997 2:07:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3744

I thought that the gold bricks fell from cloud cuckoo land from gold spinning clouds from the storm gods. and onto platinum knifes in other mean and angry clouds they smashed to earth only in arizona which the know in geologic time as gondwonoland and had reptilian kings. Then mighty rivers of sand and hydro sulfuric acid washed away all the california hills and collapsed the rift valleys into subterannean kingdoms where elves beat out nuggets until the middle kingdom was born and Frodo declared peace. Subsequent diastrophism and general degradation of gangue minerals would await bored australian stock promoters who had been bereft of similar settings in their continent because of darwinian isolation. Coherency of the model is all important if you wish to maintain grade. EC<:-}

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (1307)	11/10/1997 2:26:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3744

Did you ever hear of the "anything is possible" geological theory. It is based upon the murphonian dialectic. "If it is unlikely it will only be found by fools" Pt's are powerfully scavenged by nature and like sulfide systems of CU-NI affinity. AU is usually present in smaller quantities as always in sulfide systems. Some PT-CU-NI systems run to .50 Pt metals and almost .10 to .25 gold. However in some placer systems Pt runs almost equal to gold. Tulameen River in BC is a case in point. This is thought to be because of the curious fact that alpine gabbros are frequent contributors to large placer systems and frequently have abundant gold and platinum. Gold is usually less scavenged by nature unless tellurides abound. Now tellurium reports, we find, to alkaline felsic intrusives and vein systems. Lead and silver and copper are frequent associations of these vein systems. In the Colorado area they had plentiful tellurides. One town in Co is called Telluride. (Good skiing) The most common species of Pt is a telluride, Sperrylite. So in a complex telluride deposit could Pt and gold find itself in very hard to assay situation with platinum? It could I guess. (never heard of it bit anything is possible) Tellurium is notorious for causing many an assayer headaches and problems are legendary. It is a precipitor of gold and Pt and is very volatile so was thought to report to the flume with all the metals. It could conceivably cause problems with chemical assays (AA)by robbing the solution of gold or fighting hydrocarbon pick up but I don't know of any specific problems reported. ----------------------------------------------------------------------