PLY microscope work I got the following picture emailed from PLY. It is a scanning electron microscope picture. Apparently a regular microscope can't see these very small grains of loess. Also the Electron Microscope lets you identify the chemical composition of the various minerals. The top part of the picture is two graphs identifying different minerals and the bottom part is a picture of the grains. The coating is a zinc mineral, around a grain of loess. I guess this is what Vic saw when he was in the office. To me this supports the zinc arriving in solution and then precipitating out around the soil grains when the water evaporated near to surface. Briggs told me this sample came from a very high zinc part of the E1 South anomaly. As Vic observed PLY are doing more than the typical junior on this project.
Owl