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Gold-bearing quartz veins, Blue Ribbon Mine, Alaska. For this reason, veins within hydrothermal gold deposits are no longer the exclusive target of mining, and in some cases gold mineralisation is restricted entirely to the altered wall rocks within which entirely barren quartz veins are hosted.
Gold-bearing quartz veins, Blue Ribbon Mine, Alaska. In geology, a lode is a deposit of metalliferous ore that fills or is embedded in a fracture (or crack) in a rock formation or a vein of ore that is deposited or embedded between layers of rock. [1]
The first reported mining in what was to become The Blue Ribbon Mine took place in 1906. Except for some stretches when no mining took place, some gold has probably been recovered every year since. The total amount recovered is unknown, but at least 20,000 oz (1,200 lb; 570 kg) have been reported recovered, mostly by small-scale hand or ...
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Trommel at the Potato Patch, Blue Ribbon Mine, Alaska. A trommel is composed of a slightly inclined rotating metal tube (the 'scrubber section') with a screen at its discharge end. Lifter bars, sometimes in the form of bolted in angle iron, are attached to the interior of the scrubber section. The ore is fed into the elevated end of the trommel.
Hydrothermal vein ore deposits consist of discrete veins or groups of closely spaced veins. Veins are believed to be precipitated by hydrothermal solutions travelling along discontinuities in a rockmass. [10] They are commonly epithermal in origin, that is to say they form at relatively high crustal levels and moderate to low temperatures.
Along an ore shoot, there is a rich gathering of different minerals within a vein. The veins can resemble a pipe, chimney or ribbon in structure and are displaced mainly vertically oriented but also can be horizontal with large veins extending approximately 30 m (100 ft) horizontally and 150 m (500 ft) vertically. [3]
Boudins can become separated by fractures or vein material; such zones of separation are known as boudin necks. [3] In three dimensions, the boudinage may take the form of ribbon-like boudins or chocolate-tablet boudins, depending on the axis and isotropy of extension. They range in size from about 20 m thick to about 1 cm. [4]