RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Eric Sprot comments Rhino10 ...You especially, with yr “prospector” experience and point of view at looking at all the geo info, are truly a breath of fresh air. Lots of us are not deeply versed in understanding (beyond superficial top layer) geology and perhaps worst still, interpreting what we read. So when posters like yourself ( & TxRogers) come share yr understandings, we ALL benefit.
i have been disturbed re the fact that fossikers, using shovels, for no powered equipment is allowed unless they own the tenement, have been able to continuously find visibly lg nuggets, at surface or at least shallow depths! Since Au is heavy, where do those nuggets strewed all over the place, & at surface, come from? But I also refer to the vids showing lots of red circles where metal detectors have indicated presence of minerals (am I correct to assume the metal detectors indicate Au minerals only?). Some of those red circles were cracked open to show Au nuggets inside conglomerates.
Soputting the the two scenes together, one logically assumes that the Au must be there in substantial quantities. Only issue remaining is to define where “there” is?? Yr lg bulk digging/trenching makes sense to me.