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Localizing Desert Hillside Detectable Gold


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On 9/18/2020 at 2:54 PM, Jim McCulloch said:

My favored method of locating eluvial gold: at sites known to produce alluvial gold, walk along the hillside above the wash, looking for the typical "markers," quartz, greenstone, and red dirt.

I've had a question about using the colors of the dirt as indicators for awhile.  If an area has a both lighter/bleached dirt and rocks in the vicinity of red rocks and dirt, how do you typically interpret that?  Of course, everyone loves to talk about rich mineralized, red dirt in gold bearing areas.  However, I've also read that acidic compounds in mineralized ground  can "bleach" the area as a useful indicator, as well.  In your experience, do you typically find one sign more helpful than the other?

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