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Gold in Iowa - Prospecting Locations - RareGoldNuggets

In northeast Davis County, gold can be found in the alluvial deposits along the Vasser Creek according to a 1999 Iowa Geological Survey. ... In addition, the darker colored sands generally have the best concentrations of fine gold. Successful gold prospecting in Iowa and throughout the Midwest requires persistence and hard work. Finding good ...

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(PDF) Mineral Commodity Report 14 — Gold - Academia.edu

two major classes are 10 g/t au, 280 g/t u and 30 g/t ag. recognised: young placers consist of gold-bearing gravel and sand, and greenstone lode gold deposits consist of gold-bearing quartz their consolidated equivalents, deposited in alluvial, beach lodes found in late archean and mesozoic greenstone belts. and fluvioglacial environments during .

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Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Biologically-Mediated Gold ... - MDPI

locally, extensive interaction between oxidising groundwater and the widespread pyrite causes elevated dissolved sulfate concentrations in the groundwater, with concentrations reaching ~100 mg/l where groundwaters percolate slowly through relatively impermeable lithic debris such as poorly sorted alluvial fan sediments and landslides ( figure 3 c .

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Low temperature recrystallisation of alluvial gold in paleoplacer ...

the rim compositions are almost pure gold, with lower ag contents (∼1 wt%) compared to typically higher ag contents (5-50 wt%) in the particle cores, and this phenomenon has been noted in fluvial systems right around the world ( desborough, 1970, giusti and smith, 1984, groen et al., 1990, youngson and craw, 1993, knight et al., 1999b, chapman et .

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Geological controls on evolution of evaporative precipitates on soil ...

Aug 6, 2022Hydrothermally altered schist basement is locally enriched in Mg-bearing carbonates, sulphides and gold. Bare substrates on these sites are variably permeable and develop evaporative salts with carbonates, sulphates, ferric oxyhydroxide (some arsenic-bearing), and minor brucite, after extensive water-rock interaction. ...

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Low temperature recrystallisation of alluvial gold in paleoplacer ...

Relict, coarse grained (∼100 µm) gold particle cores have 3-10 wt% Ag, which is representative of the source gold in nearby basement rocks. Gold in the Miocene paleoplacers was recycled from the...

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Arsenic geochemistry of alluvial sediments and pore waters ... - USGS

Gold mining operations in the northern Black Hills of South Dakota resulted in the discharge of arsenopyrite-bearing mine tailings into Whitewood Creek from 1876 to 1977. Those tailings were transported further downstream along the Belle Fourche River, the Cheyenne River, and the Missouri River. An estimated 110 million metric tons of tailings remain stored in alluvial deposits of the Belle Fourch

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Alluvial gold along the northeast Otago margin

Yellow localities are historic alluvial gold mines in quartz gravel deposits. The Kyeburn deposits are Eocene (~40 million years old) and the others are Miocene (~20 million years old). Gold eroded from the vein systems and altered schist, such as the deposits at Oturehua and Macraes, accumulated with eroded quartz in old river channels.

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Delayed accumulation of placers during exhumation of orogenic gold in ...

Production from these deposits yielded at least 4000 tonnes of gold, including ca 1500 tonnes from Victoria (Phillips and Hughes, 1996), ca 1700 tonnes from California (Boyle, 1979), ca 240 tonnes from Otago (Williams, 1974) and at least 450 tonnes from the Klondike (Lowey, 2006).

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MINES STATEMENT BY THE HON. A. McLAGAN, MINISTER OF MINES

Kaniere Dredge (Gold Mines (N.Z.), Ltd.), Kaniere.—Foi a yield of 784-45 crude oz gold the company dredged 2,670,346 cubic yards ground, recovering 1-41 grams per cubic yard. A total ot 22 024 acres was dug to an average depth of 58-9 ft., and 80 per cent, of running-time enabled 5 770 hours to be worked and continuous employment was given to ...

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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, /, - X-MOL

Stratigraphy and palaeogeography of the Cretaceous Blue Spur Conglomerate, Otago, New Zealand N. Z. J. Geol. Geophys. (IF 1.803) Pub Date : 2022-02-23. Dave Craw, Nick Mortimer. ABSTRACT The non-marine Blue Spur Conglomerate in southeast Otago hosts the largest gold paleoplacer in New Zealand, but its formal stratigraphic relationships have ...

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Recovery of Gold from Alluvial Sand by Wet Chlorination

The potential required for a rapid leaching rate and for avoiding the reduction of gold is 950 mV (vs AgCl/Ag(KCl sat)).The 5% NaOCl consumption required for gold leaching from pre-treated samples ...

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Contrasting geology and mineralogy of evaporative ... - ResearchGate

Nov 3, 2021Two sites, at Patearoa and Belmont have salts derived primarily from marine aerosols. The Patearoa site has developed on clay-rich pans formed on a terrace eroded by the Taieri River into...

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Low temperature recrystallisation of alluvial gold in paleoplacer deposits

Alluvial gold, and associated concentrations of that gold in pla-cer deposits, occurs as particles distributed among silicate clasts in fluvial gravels. The alluvial gold particles have been derived ulti-mately from erosion and liberation from hydrothermal gold depos-its in basement rocks, with subsequent transportation in

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Fluvial gold placers ...

fan is an inefficient machine for producing concentrations, because a given locality is either in an aggradational (accumulation) or a degradational (erosional) mode. ... requirements for gold concentration in alluvial fans: 1. A wet-climate fan rotates into the basin; 2. The apparent axis of rotation must remain in the fan; and 3. The lateral ...

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Patearoa gold: Alluvial concentrations in a dynamic environment

The goldfield lies on the northern slopes of the actively rising Rock & Pillar Range, near to the historic Hamiltons Diggings alluvial gold mining area. The gold at Patearoa has been concentrated in gravel deposits (=alluvial gold) that accumulated in alluvial fans on the slopes of the actively rising Rock and Pillar Range.

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Gold, Department of Geology, University of Otago, New Zealand

Patearoa gold: Alluvial concentrations in a dynamic environment Gold Cycle - Gold from the mountains to the sea Gold occurs in thin veins of white quartz near the crest of the Southern Alps. It is transported in rivers and deposited near the sea. The action of the sea concentrates the gold in beach sands.

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University of Otago, Dunedin and other places - ResearchGate

Dave Craw's 213 research works with 4,717 citations and 14,907 reads, including: Geochemical evolution of high-pH sodic salt pans in Central Otago, New Zealand

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Gold and arsenic in pyrite, Geology and gold on Otago's northeastern ...

Left image shows gold concentration: red spots are gold inclusions; green patches are pyrite with gold content between 1 and 10 parts per million. Right image shows the arsenic content of the same grain. Red patches are arsenic-rich, yellow has moderate arsenic content (1-2%), and blue has lower arsenic content.

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Mines Statement. by The Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Mines.

The following is a statement showing the value of production of, and dividends declared by, alluvial gold-mines during 1936 : — 24 . C.—2. Prospecting by boring, shaft-sinking, and driving was carried out in many areas in Southland, Otago, and the West Coast districts of the South Island. Several of the West Coast areas which had been bored ...

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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, /, - X-MOL

ABSTRACT Along the south coast of the North Island of New Zealand, elevated Pleistocene marine terraces provide evidence for vertical deformation associated with active crustal faults and the westward subduction of the Pacific Plate at the southern Hikurangi margin. We have reassessed the age and elevation of these terraces.

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Alluvial Bulk Sampling Assay Results - ABN Newswire

White Cliff Minerals Limited ABN 22 126 299 125 Suite 2, 47 Havelock Street, West Perth WA 6005, PO Box 368 West Perth WA 6872. Telephone +61 8 9321 2233 Facsimile +61 8 9324 2977 White Cliff Minerals Limited 1 14 March 2019 ASX Code: WCN Alluvial Bulk Sampling Assay Results Highlights • Alluvial bulk sample assays reveal gold concentrations up to 104 mg/t (on a wet basis)

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No 36. Soils and land use of Mid Manuherikia Valley, Central Otago, New Zealand

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Transport-related mylonitic ductile deformation and ... - ScienceDirect

Detrital gold in the late Pleistocene-Holocene deposits of the Patearoa area occurs in placer concentrations near to the base of each gravel unit in the fans. Most gold concentrated near to the unconformity at the bases of the fans, either on schist basement or in Eocene sediment remnants.

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Evolution of the Taieri River catchment, East Otago, New Zealand

(2016). Evolution of the Taieri River catchment, East Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics: Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 257-273.

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BJD Douglas OCR Manuherikia volume one - Academia.edu

The locality description and grid reference of boreholes are presented in Appendix 1. Eighty-one boreholes (d2001-d2081) which include two fully cored holes (d2054 and d2071) were drilled during an exploratory lignite drilling programme (between October 1978 and May 1979), funded by Mines Division, Ministry of Energy.

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Low temperature recrystallisation of alluvial gold in paleoplacer ...

the rim compositions are almost pure gold, with lower ag contents (∼1 wt%) compared to typically higher ag contents (5-50 wt%) in the particle cores, and this phenomenon has been noted in fluvial systems right around the world (desborough, 1970, giusti and smith, 1984, groen et al., 1990, youngson and craw, 1993, knight et al., 1999b, chapman et .

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(PDF) Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Biologically-Mediated Gold ...

Detrital gold in Pleistocene alluvial fans near Patearoa (T able 1; Figures 1 a,b and 3) was derived from the Macraes mineralised zone or a related structure, and was r ecycled through Eocene ...

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Rail trail geology, Research, Department of Geology, University of ...

The goldfield lies on the northern slopes of the actively rising Rock & Pillar Range, near to the historic Hamiltons Diggings alluvial gold mining area. The gold at Patearoa has been concentrated in gravel deposits (=alluvial gold) that accumulated in alluvial fans on the slopes of the actively rising Rock and Pillar Range. Hamilton Diggings

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BJD Douglas OCR Manuherikia volume two - academia.edu

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6 days agoCraw, D. (1992) Growth of alluvial gold particles by chemical accretion and reprecipitation Waimumu New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 35:2, 157-164. ⓘ Waimumu Stream Mine Invercargill City

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(PDF) Macraes Orogenic Gold Deposit (New Zealand) Origin and ...

Ore mined at Macraes is processed to produce a sulphide mineral rich concentrate, which was originally finely ground and then cyanided to extract the gold. Refractory ore, mainly sheared micaceous...

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Papers Past | Parliamentary Papers | Appendix to the Journals of the ...

The alluvial deposits bordering the Ashburton and Hinds Rivers cover a much smaller area than those in the low-rainfall area, and they are chiefly sands. The loess deposits are, in general, thicker than in the low-rainfall belt, ranging from 17 in. to more than 6 ft., the bulk being between 17 in. and 24 in.

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