Re: Surface seismic techniques used in gold exploration
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Feb 12, 2011 05:06PM
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Nice digging Greaser!
Even though this is a method of understanding the country rock formations and the geographics, I beleive the Titan is more efficient. I would beleive this method would be used on a larger scale property, helping the owners to zero in on prospectives. It appears to me that the lines have to be further apart to obtain greater depths than does the Titan, hence, more lines to get the same picture. Also lacking from this method are the important features of the Titan, resitivity, etc. We are more zeroed in with the top of the line geophysics of Quantec and can see the important geological structures through the images. This technique is better used in the oil& gas exploration, identifying the stratal structures and horizontal layers that are important in that exploration. In gold exploration, we dont really have to know the host rock type, only the sources of the mineralization. In pourous rock, minerals can/will penetrate the rock depending on flow pressure and temperature, in more solidified rock, the mineralized source will tend to break or coat the host rock, filling gaps of the least resistance. But, there are exceptions, that gold will be present in certain solid rock if all the conditions were right and this rock was formed at the same time the gold was.
In our case, the important conduits will run more vertically inclined and that will be giving the most attention. But,it would be most definitely interesting to look at the sides of the valley (north and south sides of property)and match this up with the closest Titan image. If the river there was full of gold at one time, and still keeps revealing gold, then its quite reasonable to beleive that our "corridors" do extend horizontal to the river, rather than dipping on a say 45 degree angle down to the valley bottom. Remember what a millenia of erosion can do in regards to a river cutting through rock and remember the path of least resistance.