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Symbioticon Feb 23, 2019 11:23am
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Increasing grade with depth
Increasing grade with depthIt is plausible to a degree and extent using conventional assumptions and may well prove correct. The thick slabby nature of the gold raises other possibilities. Komalite has a higher heat nature and can be upto 2552 degrees Fahrenheit. Easily beyond the supercritical state of the fluids. Water is critical at 3206 PSI and 706 degrees Fahrenheit. Interesting things happen at that point. Liquid and gas cannot be differentiated ( opalescent turbidity), there is no surface tension and densities vary fluctuate wildly, conductivity changes in orders of magnitude. The 2552 degree source can push it far into the super critical conditions. Pressure and temperature of the fluids rise quite high. Gold melts at 1948 degrees Fahrenheit and so the fluid could bring it to a molten state and demobilize it in a condition that doesn’t require it to be dissolved . ( note retarded spell check, 3 times I put re and it insisted on de?). So yes the fluids could scour the metal by other than expected means. The lack of surface tension and great pressure can allow a great velocity. Then it comes down to plumbing. A restricted flow could maintain in super ctritical condition while an open cavern of low restriction could drop a requisite factor in supercritical condition and profound and instantaneous alteration of the fluids characteristics and the effects of that. Some black smokers have displayed supercticality at the orifice but usually it’s a deeper seated trait. The deposit may well have dual characteristics. The main plumbing(veins) could have been supercritical while fluids that traveled through sediments where subcritical and deposited in a more conventional way. Petroleum fracking can use upto 9000 PSI, supercritical fluids can surpass that like it is nothing. I am not a rock guy but I can’t resist a nice rabbit hole to go down now and then. Oh well, we will get the horse sense provided by drilling soon I hope. At the end of the day that allways is what matters in such situations.