oregonneil Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Here is a nugget a friend of mine found the other day and we would like to find out if anyone else has found one and what the material between the gold is. Maybe Chris Ralph could give us some information on this? It is a beautiful piece and the first one like that we have found. Thanks and have a AU day. Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Ron Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Yo Neil...Looks like the gold came from the contact zone between quartz vein and "country rock"....Hard to say what the country rock composition is from the photo...Nice nugget...Cheers, Unc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveT Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 I would agree with Uncle Ron. I will guess by the color that is shale, right out of the contact zone. Probably more in the area. SteveT :coffeetime: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank c Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 NEIL check the host rock with a magnet I have a suspicion it may be magnetic. Please post and let us know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oregonneil Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 Hi All, We are going back tomorrow with high hopes of finding more. Anyway we are going to give that area a real good going over. Will post how we do and will try a magnet on the nugget. By the way, it is ¼ oz. Thanks for the comments. Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oregonneil Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Well, as so often happens, we went over the area of the sandwich nugget with 2 different size coils in hopes of finding more but no luck. It didn’t pan out (pun intended). It’s hard to believe there aren’t more nuggets there but if there are they aren’t close enough to the surface to detect. Oh well, maybe next time. By the way the nugget doesn’t respond to a magnet. We think the material with the gold is slate. Here are a couple more pictures: Have a good day. Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank c Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Thanks Neil, I have a magnetically sandwiched specimin I located last year and thought yours may be like it. Theres a couple meteorites to the left and right in the pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oregonneil Posted March 28, 2009 Author Share Posted March 28, 2009 Hi Frank, Nice nugget and interesting. My friend found a piece a few years ago that does have magnetic material in it that would cling to a magnet, but that material was black, not gray like this one. Who said you can’t pickup gold with a magnet.http://www.nuggetshooter.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/smileone/laught16.gif Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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