yankee nugget Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 am not into geology ,,,,i dont know hard rock mining either .....what i know 5 types of lava .....what,, where and how would u look for placer in this lava or this area ??? ......this is in a gold rich area ....could a gold bug 2 find anything ?????? any information would be helpful thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 A placer is a concentration of mineral that occurs after the original host rock has decomposed. Therefore a placer cannot by definition exist in fresh lava. If you are simply asking if gold could be found in a recently cooled fresh lava flow, the answer is that is extremely unlikely. Placer Geology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankee nugget Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 thank you steve for giving me a better understanding on placer vs hard rock .........i guess those 2 woman from from the UK just got lucky at the Taal volcano ,,,,,,there father was a geologist and the nuggets were fist size ,,,,,,that was the first time those women used metal detectors and the first time at Taal they said the father sent them here to find the gold that was years ago .....so placer might be found from old (millions of years ) lava flows ....my understanding of Taal is nobody ever looked on the crater island ,,,,,thanks again steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idahogold Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Yankee where did you see the report? cantfind anything.....just wondering? Link? Cheers, Ig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasquatch Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Interesting, just found a youtube that shows some of the finds. Looks like they found a stash of jewlery and valuables lost in the lake, not a lava flow, not naturally occuring gold. Interesting article on gold in volcanos though, most forms very deep, seems like even if some was lifted to the surface the gold would likely sink to the bottom of the flow and be buried very deep in the cooled lava: http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idahogold Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Squatch Thanks for the Info! ?Ig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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