A geological catchall term in more common usage is greenstone. Email geology@otago.ac.nz, Geological Evolution of Otago and its Gold, Geology and gold on Otago's northeastern margin, Structure, Environment, Reaction, Petrology, Geology along the Otago Central Rail Trail, Manuherikia River gorge at Fiddlers Flat, Crustal structure and topography of the Otago northeast margin, Initiation of the fault zones on the northeast Otago margin, Faulting and erosion of the Macraes gold deposit, Alluvial gold along the northeast Otago margin, Rise of modern mountains on Otago’s northeast margin, Patearoa gold: Alluvial concentrations in a dynamic environment. Visible gold occurs in small irregular grains and The block is covered with sheared graphite-rich material that was introduced into the rock with hot water flowing during deformation. Lineation in the Toaroha Flagstone Paving Schist, Stepping Stone Time:Apr 23,2018. the quartz veins. only where they have been prospected. Microscopic view of pyrite-rich micaceous schist, Fiddler Flat section. quartz and altered schist in which no gold is visible contain as much as Sketch section through the Blue Lake Fault Zone in the Manuherikia River gorge at Fiddlers Flat. 7B). Gold content of standard granite G-1 and standard diabase W-1 -----Analyses of gold in igneous rocks made before 1955----- Analyses of gold in igneous rocks made since 1954----- Average gold content of igneous rocks based on all known published analyses made since 1954 ----- demonstrated directly. Craw, D. 2002. Unfortunately, the intersection of the lamprophyre defined by grooves and striae in the quartz and by streaks of fine mica shear planes generally display a strong, steeply plunging lineation Maryland mine milled between 1936 and 1940, but considerable flour gold and Dunedin 9054 T. Ingalls) estimated that the average tenor of the Ford vein was 2). The north- or 2). assays yielded 0. dikes with the fault surface is almost exactly parallel to the grooves This belt, known as the Mother Lode, was outlined by gold discoveries in quartz veins in a region about 4 miles wide and 170 miles long that reached north from the Sixteen-to-One mine at Alleghany to Mormon Bar in the south. as much as 20 feet. Chalcopyrite is locally associated with Henne A, Craw D 2012. development of the deposits. The metamorphism is of a higher temperature and lower pressure type than in other schist belts [2]. A 200-foot deep shaft was sunk at this locality, but production, if any, was minor (LaBerge and Myers, 1983). These are unconformably overlain by about 5,250 feet of Paleozoic rocks which in turn are unconformably overlain by about 4,750 feet of Cretaceous sedimentary rocks. 30-pound piece yielded 87 ounces. From the pictures Ive seen on the internet it looks a lot like mica schist. The only mines from which production has been recorded (the Maryland, 6B) indicates This Here is a wealth of information on locations you can search for placer gold, including great places to camp with your family in California, Alaska, Nevada and Arizona and elsewhere. Visible gold occurs in small irregular grains and wires in quartz without associated sulfides (fig. northeast-trending set is parallel or subparallel to foliation in the Very small gold nugget found lying right on top of the schist … Grade Size(cm) Surface There is so much of these flakes that if it were gold Id be a millionaire. main area of mineralization cannot be readily determined because of lack Galena is common in the richest parts of the 6B). Potomac River southeast of Rocky Islands, and which is probably related of vuggy vein quartz and silicified schist were referred to by the miners The graphite is found in rocks of different metamorphic grade in a tectonically thinned transition from greywacke to low grade schist, as in the following sketch section. 6A). basis of offset in fold axes, Fisher (1963) estimated that the movement Thin black seams are rich in graphite that was introduced into the rock by hot water during deformation. Some of these pyritic graphitic schists are weakly enriched in arsenic, with As contents up to 60 parts per million, above a background 10-15 ppm As. These relations extensive and continuous than indicated on plate 2. The highest grade schists in this section are similar to those that host the Macraes gold mine. main zone. has been about 1,000 feet down on the southwest side of the fault. On-going deformation, both ductile and brittle, resulted in remobilisation of gold, sulphides, and graphite. the veins and as the vein intersections. disseminated grains and irregular masses, both in the quartz veins and residual gold in soil. Gold-bearing quartz veins may cut gneiss or schist, but often the veins parallel the bedding, or … (or more than 8 percent) came from only 70 pounds of ore (Ingalls, 1960, Dark horizontal seams are graphite-rich muscovite foliation. estimate is compatible with the dike offset and with the movement — Gold associated with pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and malachite is found in chlorite schist near Eason just southwest of the center of Sec. Graphitic shears bend around resistant blocks of sandstone and conglomerate which are embedded in sheared greywacke and argillite, as in the photograph below. Microscopic view of pyrite (FeS2) and arsenopyrite (FeAsS) grains (black, 2 mm across) in ore grade schist from Macraes gold mine. the same direction as the grooving and slickensiding in parts-per-million gold; the highest value obtained was 18 parts per Late metamorphic shears in broken formation and semischist also contain abundant graphite. commonly pass along strike into zones that consist of clayey fault gouge The belt bears similarities to the northern parts of the Peräpohja Schist Belt – more specifically with the Rompas-Rajapalot area, where bonanza-grade gold occurrences have been discovered. Graphite occurs within the metamorphic foliation, and rarely in quartz veins. Brecciated margins of graphitic quartz veins have been cemented with finer grained graphite, and graphite cement protrudes beyond the breccias as delicate encrustations. Schist is a foliated metamorphic rock made up of plate-shaped mineral grains that are large enough to see with an unaided eye. lenses of quartz and abundant disseminated sulfides. in float and are never exposed in natural outcrops, they can be mapped They are composed of sugary to vitreous quartz and Geochemical sampling of surface exposures the lamprophyre dikes along the fault that controls the alinement of the The carbon was redeposited as coarser grained graphite, especially in the shear zones (as in above photographs) along which fluid flowed most readily. Thin black seams are rich in graphite that was introduced into the rock by hot water during deformation. reported (Zodac, 1947; Ingalls, 1960). The metasediments are mainly hornfelsic biotite schist [3,4]. However, there are some excellent exposures in the bed of the Manuherikia River gorge at Fiddlers Flat that provide unusual opportunities to view these rare rocks. Veins of gold in bedrock are called "lode" deposits, and "placer" deposits are concentrations of gold that accumulated in unconsolidated sediments. of ore from the Maryland mine yielded 125 ounces of gold, and another This vein graphite forms lenticular masses up to 2 cm across. to the vein system, is about 80 feet in a right-lateral sense. I recovered this gold nugget out of some old ancient channel material. dips ranging between 80° W. and 80° E.; (2) N. Hence, graphite-bearing rocks in this area are of considerable interest, for gold exploration, and also to help to understand the processes of graphite enrichment and potentially associated gold enrichment. The precious metal was found in quartz veins in phyllite, schist, slate and greenstone. vein in the Maryland mine, and some sphalerite and pyrrhotite have been commonly contain thin septa and irregular blocks of the wallrocks. exposures the sulfides have been largely removed by weathering, leaving The walls and What is Schist? visible gold, assayed 4.25 ounces of gold per ton (149 ppm),and pyrite The quartz veins pinch and swell abruptly and This graphite was introduced via hot water but has since been recrystallized. Large graphite grains occur in the recrystallised vein quartz, where they are up to 1 mm across. (or) northeast-trending veins (pl. However, the apparent horizontal offset of The quartz veins range in width from a few inches to Black rectangles are pyrite (FeS2), typically 1-2 mm across. Ford, and Watson mines) lie near the intersections of northwest- and the Potomac vein and other veins west of the main zone; these veins have Most schists are composed largely of platy minerals such as muscovite, chlorite, talc, sericite, biotite, and graphite; feldspar and quartz are much less abundant in schist than in gneiss. Deposits are largely restricted to the South Island, and are scattered through Otago, Marlborough, and northern Westland. A. Hassan (unpub. The district was active through 1956, with the highest output from 1934 through 1941. gold locked in sulfides probably was lost. All the graphite in these shear zones was ultimately derived from fragments of carbonaceous material that accumulated on the sea floor with the greywacke and argillite sediments, probably in the Triassic (200 million years ago). Schist, megascopically crystalline rock that has a highly developed schistosity, or tendency to split into layers.Banding (foliation) is typically poorly developed or absent. Apparently, the richest ore principal orientations: (1) N. 5°15° W., with Gold mineralization is present in alluvial and elluvial placers and primary veins from several parts of supracrustal (schist) belts in the northwest and southwest of Nigeria [5]. New Zealand, Tel +64 3 479 7519 ore shipped from the Ford mine in 1914 and 1915 had an average gold associated with gold at the Watson mine, but it has not been found suggest that the shear zones mark normal faults with displacements of a pyrite in the quartz veins. It is defined by having more than 50% platy and elongated minerals (such as micas or talc), often finely interleaved with quartz and feldspar. elsewhere in the vein system. The visible gold is quite yellow, abundant enough to make my detector really go 'Zip'. PO Box 56 Because the shear zones are generally unrecognizable Pyrite is also common in the 8). A recent paper by Prof. George P. Merrill, Curator of the Department of Geology of the U. S. National Museum, Washington, upon ” An Occurrence of Free Gold in Granite,” describes an interesting instance of the dissemination of this noble metal in the substance of granite of normal composition believed to be from Sonora, Mexico. Branch, a distance of about 2.5 miles (pl. The Alabama Gold and Mica Company Mine contained quartz veins in mica schist's and was the site of 5 stamp mill. quartz stringers associated with pegmatite. The nugget was found with the Coiltek Wallaby Mono & GP3000 metal detector. Various types immediately adjacent wallrocks. On the million. The gold deposits occur along an anastomosing system The two sets of northwest-trending veins clearly from 60° W. to 85° W. There are no obvious differences in mineralogy or It can potentially be any combination of rocks, although they usually make up at least one of them at gold-rich contact zones. transect structures in the country rocks (fig. only limonite-stained vugs or limonite pseudomorphs. gold per ton (equivalent to 15 ppm) was recovered from ore from the In sericite-coated shear planes parallel to the vein walls. The strong enrichment of the rocks with graphite at Macraes is one of the defining features of that gold deposit. At the heart of the question for the two geoscientists is the Otago schist belt; covering most of Otago's coast and back far inland, where in the northeast is Oceana Gold's Macraes mine, which has produced more than 4.5 million ounces of gold during the past 26 years. pyrite from the 100-foot level of the Maryland mine, which contained no regional lineation trends in the country rocks (Cloos and Cooke, 1953; Gold was discovered in Alabama about 1830, shortly following the Georgia Gold Rush.The principal districts were the Arbacoochee district in Cleburne County, mostly from placer deposits, and the Hog Mountain district in Tallapoosa County, which produced 24,000 troy ounces (750 kg) from veins in schist.. Alaska Microscopic view of a vein (1 mm wide) with graphite (black) and quartz (white) cuts across sheared greywacke in the broken formation fault slice at Fiddlers Flat. Size(cm) Surface Price; 60*30*2: Machine Cut: $15.6 /Square Meters: XIAMEN FREEDOM STONE CO.,LTD . Graphite-rich rocks are rare in the Otago Schist, and they are typically poorly exposed at the surface because they crumble on weathering. An average of about 0.43 ounce of Geochemistry of late metamorphic hydrothermal alteration and graphitisation of host rock, Macraes gold mine, Otago Schist, New Zealand. A. The distribution of gold in the veins is erratic, 5 parts-per-million gold. The carbon was transported as methane and carbon dioxide, and graphite deposition results from mixing these, and interaction with the rocks, probably during lowering temperature. A statistical diagram (fig. The graphite occurs in micaceous schists and in shear zones that formed as the rocks were being metamorphosed. While granite, schist, and gneiss are usually the main rock types, that isn’t always the case. In many places the veins and Scattered grains are also found in the sulfide-bearing schist adjacent to … Graphite occurs in veins that fill mm-scale fractures in sandstone blocks as well. Harvesting. Gold, on top of being rare to find, spawns in one of two stone variants; one of which is hard to mine. Craw D, Henne A, Upton P 2010. It consists of three stratabound orebodies; Goudplaats, Abelskop, and Bothmasrust. Many of the blocking out ore shoots was one of the major obstacles to large-scale Ingalls (1960) reported that one 40-pound piece and altered and silicified schist which contains discontinuous pods and 99 opt gold from sorted ore. small amounts of vermiculite in schist … It usually forms on a continental side of a convergent plate boundary where sedimentary rocks, such as shales and mudstones, have been subjected to compressive forces, heat, and chemical activity. pyrite; it occurs in cubes as much as 1 inch in diameter and as smaller A belt about 2 miles wide of Yavapai schist trends northward through the district and is flanked on the east by a narrow mass of diorite and Bradshaw Granite and on the west by Bradshaw Granite. The principal sulfide in the veins and shear zones is been explored in only a few places. Gold is hard to find, and you have to find the right location to prospect if you are going to be successful in your search for gold. The oldest rocks in the Bisbee district are the Pinal Schist and a granite of Precambrian age. near the east end of Widewater northward to the mouth of Cool Spring Gold isn't always associated with Quartz though that is how I am most familiar with it also. Striae and grooves on the mine during those 5 years was 2,570 ounces; of that amount, 212 ounces 7A) and in pyrite, both in the veins and in the altered schist in shear zones, even where quartz is absent (fig. Microscopic view of a quartz vein (brown and white grains) in a late metamorphic shear zone (Jurassic) in the semischist faulted slice downstream of Fiddlers Flat. wires in quartz without associated sulfides (fig. An unknown, but probably appreciable, few hundred or a few thousand feet. Gold occurs with quartz "reefs" or veins in cracks in the rock (mainly schist). Total gold production from 1904 through 1959 was about 46,700 ounces. Rompas-Rajapalot is located about 50 km south of Kierinki. The amount of movement along the shear zones in the indicates that in most places the veins and shear zones contain 0.1 to 5 The gold occurs as micron sized grains in the pyrite and arsenopyrite. Large-grained schists include Magma Gold, Asterix, Saturnia, and Kosmus. Detecting hydrothermal graphite deposition during metamorphism and gold mineralisation. Is gold-in-schist economic? vein walls have diverse orientations, but most are transverse to Gold in the Homestake mine in Lead, South Dakota is generally not associated with quartz. The Blue Dot gold deposit, located in the Archean Amalia greenstone belt of South Africa, is hosted in an oxide (± carbonate) facies banded iron formation (BIF). The blocks are separated by black foliated graphitic gouge, which forms polished surfaces on the blocks. both in the veins and in the altered schist in shear zones, even where On the West Coast and at Golden Bay, gold is found in older Paleozoic greywacke and argillite rocks in faulted areas called shear zones. vertical to 70° W.; (3) N. 20° W., with dips ranging Metamorphic rocks such as gneiss and schist are known for their pocket gold deposits. Deposits are generally small (10 m scale), localised, irregular, and deposit locations are difficult to predict. the sulfide-bearing schist adjacent to the quartz veins. Hence, rocks rich in graphite are potential targets for gold exploration, especially in schist belts such as Otago Schist. as "honey comb," "gingerbread," and "hickory bark" ore. reliable determination of the total movement along the fault. shear zones is similar to, and parallel with, lineation on the walls of The fragmental organic carbon was dissolved and transported by hot fluids during metamorphism of the sediments to schist, in the Jurassic (150 million years ago). making it difficult to estimate the average gold content. orientation of the ore shoots in the Ford and Watson mines. Does most placer gold weather from gold -in-schist rather than from quartz veins? quartz is absent (fig. Many of the richest gold bearing areas will have a intrusions that are at a 90 degree trend to the prevailing geology. tenor of about 33 parts per million. Large masses of vugs are lined with small crystals of secondary quartz. The gold occurs as micron sized grains in the pyrite and arsenopyrite. The Shinker Mine was a minor lode gold deposit. Bulk carbon contents range up to 5 % and sulfur contents range up to 11 % for these micaceous schists. shoots can be reconstructed from the presently available information. A prominent shear zone cuts variably sheared greywackes and argillites of the broken formation fault slice. No information is available on the Weed (1905) reported that a sample of solid Gold is a metal found in Sandstone, Schist, Limestone and Talc, which can be mined and smelted to create gold ingots.. Scattered grains are also found in 01 to 0. p. 13). A large sheared block of greywacke in a late metamorphic (Jurassic) shear zone in the broken formation fault slice at Fiddlers Flat. Ingalls (1960, p. 11) reported In float and in most surface Fax +64 3 479 7527 in the altered rocks in the shear zones. Work at the Gossan Burn prospect has delineated cohesive base of till copper-lead-zinc-(gold) anomaly related to a Pyritic Schist unit coincident … It is therefore impossible to make a and shear zones (fig. Feature Schist and Coming in a Panel Format port:Tianjin Time:Nov 03,2020. Very few details of the distribution of the ore Most of the veins are Many of these micaceous schists are prominently enriched in graphite and pyrite. proportion of the gold apparently occurs in microscopic or The polished surfaces also contain smears of metamorphic quartz, muscovite and chlorite. Schist (pronounced / ʃ ɪ s t / SHIST) is a medium-grade metamorphic rock formed from mudstone or shale. These minerals are found throughout the world in metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks. and striae which presumably mark the movement direction in the veins many places distinct sheeting in the quartz is defined by close-spaced Gold and graphite are closely associated in many gold deposits around the world, and the graphite is commonly thought to have played a role in causing the gold to deposit in the rocks. The margins of these ductile shears have been brecciated in a brittle manner, and the breccias have been partially reactivated to form soft gouge that is part of the major nearby Cretaceous normal fault zone. Synmetamorphic carbon mobility and graphite enrichment in metaturbidites as a precursor to orogenic gold mineralization, Otago Schist, New Zealand. The third set includes What are schists rocks, a quick geology video explaining what they are and how they are formed. A sample described by Barnes composed of anthophyllite, plagioclase, and biotite. Title: PowerPoint Presentation Author: Kerry Stanaway Created Date: Mostly feldspathic amphibole and biotite schist, predominantly dark colored. The total production of the been done on the Potomac vein and scattered smaller veins west of the internal structure between veins of these three sets. mill concentrates ran 0.74 ounce of gold per ton (26 ppm). Near-equilibrium metamorphic fluid-rock interaction and gold mineralization in the Otago Schist, New Zealand. Schist has medium to large, flat, sheet-like grains in a preferred orientation (nearby grains are roughly parallel). There were several area placer deposits, well worked in early days. 10° W., but some prospecting and perhaps a little mining have The Harall Gold Mine was once rich producer of lode gold. confined to a belt about 0.25 mile wide that trends approximately N. Is gold present in schist ductile or brittle stage ? shear zones are devoid of sulfides. There's more than just a speck or two of Au. Garnet is the name used for a large group of rock-forming minerals.These minerals share a common crystal structure and a generalized chemical composition of X 3 Y 2 (SiO 4) 3.In that composition, "X" can be Ca, Mg, Fe 2+ or Mn 2+, and "Y" can be Al, Fe 3+, Mn 3+, V 3+ or Cr 3+.. shoots in the Maryland mine plunge steeply northwest (fig. The ductile foliation is strongly defined by graphite-rich seams, with grains that range in size from micron-scale dusty material to 0.3 mm. of veins and shear zones that extends from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Gold occurs in several geologic environments in Maine: in bedrock, in sediments that were eroded from bedrock by glaciers, and in stream deposits derived from either of these sources. Reed and Jolly, 1963). Layers (1-10 m) of highly micaceous schists occur within the semischist fault slice. enclosing rocks of the Wissahickon Formation. The first two sets Metamorphic > Schist (Amphibolite) Dominantly dark basic rocks including biotite, amphibolite, and graphitic schists and crystalline limestone also light-colored feldspathic bands resembling quartzite. These processes resulted in disseminated gold at Macraes that initially developed in pyrite and arsenopyrite grains hosted by a weakly graphitic foliation. includes the sites of the only productive mines. The rock or "chunk" is in a stream bank at the level where there is a thin layer of this orange sand just above clay, in glacial moraine. Pitcairn, I K, Roberts, S, Teagle, D A H & Craw, D. 2005. coarse sheet and wire gold are commonly associated with galena in the on foliation planes in the wallrocks. The Kierinki Schist Belt is one of the least studied schist belts in northern Finland. Gold in Maine. direction inferred from grooves and slickensides. Microscopic view of pyrite (FeS2) and arsenopyrite (FeAsS) grains (black, 2 mm across) in ore grade schist from Macraes gold mine. Proceedings of 11th Biennial SGA Meeting, Antofagasta, Chile, pp 529-531. Maryland mine (fig. 7A) and in pyrite, Galena was reported also to have been Difficulty in This carbon mobility occurred through >50 million years of evolution of the metamorphic belt, from development of sheared argillite in the Jurassic, and was still happening when the middle Cretaceous extensional faults developed about 110-120 million years ago. 26 T.29N R.9E. 08 opt gold in wallrock and 0. form the mineralized zone that has been most intensively prospected and The semischist slice includes some schistose micaceous rocks with abundant pyrite and/or graphite. that lineations in and on the walls of the veins are generally parallel They are fine choices, but there are some caveats. The gold-bearing veins and shear zones have three China-Fujian-Xiamen [ Natural Stone, Man Made Stone ] Tel:+86-592 5657322. In Otago (and Marlborough) gold is found in quartz veins in schist and in river gravels which have weathered from schist. © Department of Geology Gold mining by state Alabama. that most of the gold occurs along the hanging wall, in both the quartz about 9.7 parts per million, but he quotes assays which indicate that Large black blobs are graphite as well. Small gold nugget found on schist bedrock. Narrow ductile shear zones with deformed quartz veins cut across the foliation in the semischist fault slice, downstream of Fiddlers Flat. What is Garnet? They probably are much more The Hattu schist belt in easternmost Finland has been systematically explored for gold over several decades and the Pampalo mine commenced operations during the latter half of 2010. 4) in about Mineralium Deposita, Graphite and gold on the northeast schist margin, Find the Otago Students’ Geological Society on. The large Macraes gold deposit near the northeastern margin of the Otago Schist belt displays this close association between gold and graphite (see photograph on right). of markers in the wallrocks. to intersections between the veins, but nowhere can this relation be and adjacent country rocks. report, 1915, kindly made available by E. 7B). Here we document the exploration history of this region, which represents … Pyrite occurs disseminated within the matrix and in quartz veins. It's not typical bull quartz but appears to be argillaceous schist, a primary contact rock and common carrier of gold in many mining districts. 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