Geology For Dummies

Geology For Dummies

Enter Geology- For Dummies! The goal of this book is to break through the overwhelming array of geology information and provide a quick reference for key concepts in the study of the earth. Geology is the study of the earth. By default this means that geology is a vast, complex, and intricate topic. But “vast, […]

Beginner Guide to Gold Prospecting

For those of us with even the slightest inkling of gold prospecting in our blood, we know there is no shortage of information out in the world on how to do it. Regardless of our individual experience on mining for gold, we all face the same conundrum on what to do with all the information […]

Orogenic-Mesothermal-Greenstone Gold Deposits Exploration

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How to explore or “go prospecting” for a Orogenic-Mesothermal-Greenstone Gold Deposit is described herein starting with what exploration tool can be used?   First is magnetic surveys can be very useful exploration tools, when looking for bends and structures that the potential host Greenstone/Orogenic shear hosted gold deposits and mineralization. Gravity surveys can be very […]

IOCG Iron Oxide Copper Gold Ore Deposits

IOCG Iron Oxide Copper Gold Ore Deposits

IOCG Iron Oxide Copper Gold Ore Deposits goes with porphyries as they are also loosely associated with a large felsic intrusions and form at moderate depths, unlike the dominantly tertiary porphyries IOCG’s tend to be much older and are generally protoizoic in age from 1.1 to 1.8 billion years ago. There are some younger ones […]