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acanthite
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| Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject: Primary Au |
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Before I showed some nuggets, here is some gold straight from the initial deposit. Well, yes and no, the primary deposit is a paleoplacer, that is an ancient stream deposit of gold that has been buried, in this case for about 2 billion years, chemically remobilized, and redistributed. Thus the gold leaf shape, which forms when the gold is forced to precipitate along a thin fracture in the host rock (now broken away).
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David Jones
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| Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Just how much gold is that and mostly did you get to keep it? Makes you run out and dig up the back yard. That is really nice. |
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Topher
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| Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| David Jones wrote: |
| Makes you run out and dig up the back yard. |
Or clean up Phoenix's room! LOL Who knows what else is hiding in there! So far we've found several coins (some of them foreign!) 206 million dollars, a dead body or two, and now gold! |
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acanthite
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| David Jones wrote: |
| Just how much gold is that and mostly did you get to keep it? |
It isn't that much, less than an ounce, its value is more as a mineral specimen. I have a few pieces, but all contain much smaller gold leaves than this. Most I acquired during trips to different gold mines, this one came from where I worked a number of years ago. |
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Phoenix21
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| Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, awesome acanthite! Very nice. 
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| David Jones wrote: |
| Makes you run out and dig up the back yard. |
Or clean up Phoenix's room! LOL Who knows what else is hiding in there! So far we've found several coins (some of them foreign!) 206 million dollars, a dead body or two, and now gold! |
LOL, man, you're brutal.  2 more points to the contest.
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