Post by
Wangotango67 on Sep 14, 2022 10:15pm
CLINCHER -
in the Paradise doc's it says...
They mined a - vein.
Not so.
Dr Popes research paper identifies these stratigraphy lenses as - stratabound.
Stratabound is a sedimentry banding - in short - ocean floors.
Paradise miners most likely mined a vetrical sediment sheet.
Thinking it was a vein depoist.
Further down the cordillera ?
Sullivan mine - they mined mega tonnes.
They definitely knew what ores they were mining and what type of depoist.
What type of deposit was the Sullivan mine ?
STRATBOUND.
A mountain built by...
several sheets of ocean floor - stacked like layered cards buiidlng the mountain -
Which means... if the Paradise mine was mined in a near verical shaft / it would mean
they didn't even come close to understanding it was a stratabound depoist.
The purple lenses belwo ( purple shales + purple dolos )
i would say - makes a wonderful target.
It runs in a pattern from base of Mountain to upper peake.
Which means - Paradise miners went right through the strata sheet - they went vertical - perhaps thinking that's all the vein offered up - when they should've mined in a fashion of,
sinking a shaft, and chasing the - shales and lense - horizontally.
My hunch says...
Based on mine shaft diagrams - ( artist renditions )
Paradise didn't even come close to mining this thick lense.
Cheers....