RE: RE: WAIT TO SEE ASSAY RESULTS FIRST "This is funny, most samples have some visible gold." ..... Oh really, JIMMY !! And when was the last time you found a quartz vein with visible gold ? More so, WHERE did you see a near surface quartz vein with visible gold ? I'll pay cash for your gold !
Here's an exerpt from a 1989 LORE magazine of Milwaukee Public Museum illustrating the rareness of finding a near surface matrix with visible gold ...........................................................................................
Gold Prospecting in the New West
by Rodney Watkins
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is reprinted from LORE magazine (vol 39, no. 2, (Summer, 1989), p. 26-30), a benefit of museum membership. ©1996 Milwaukee Public Museum, Inc...............................................
These two factors have revolutionized the definition of economically minable gold ore. Rich veins with visible gold at the ground surface have virtually all been discovered and mined over the past one hundred and forty years. In contrast to these veins, which carried a half-ounce or more of gold per ton of rock, the deposits sought by today's prospector (or explorationist, as he prefers to be called) contain less than one tenth of an ounce of gold per ton and are usually concealed beneath the ground. The gold in such deposits occurs as microscopic particles, and millions of tons of rock must be mined to obtain economic results. The search for these large volume, low grade gold deposits has produced a type of prospecting which is quite different from that of years gone by.
And, Bagholder, with visible gold, we can pretty much expect favorable assay results !