RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Fosterville, a mere Junior to Queensland
Retiredgeo wrote: The Kibali Gold mine in the DRC is a greenstone belt "orogenic" gold deposit. Such deposits have nothing to do with modern orogenic gold deposits such as Queensway and are some 2 billion years older. In such deposits grade has been known to increase with depth. In modern orogenic deposits there is no such relationship. Gold precipitation at Queensway was probably in a narrow band. The top 3 kms of Queensway have been eroded away over the last 430 million years. No one knows how deep the remaining gold goes before it disappears. I am guessing 2000 m. QH has guessed a few kms. I'm guessing that it goes much deeper on the west side of the AFZ than the east side.
In August of 2021 a UK outfit by the name of Cruz published a short report on NFG. That triggered an avalanche of UK shorter trolls some of whom still linger two years later.
Just curious why you would think it goes deeper on the west side of the fault rather than the east side? What is your reasoning geologically?