The Fascinating Process of Gold Formation in Quartz Veins

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  • @richardrobertson1331
    @richardrobertson1331 Рік тому +37

    Your presentation is obviously from years of reading combined with lots of practical experience. You mentioned important things that are often ignored by many "professionals". I wish we were neighbors because you have a wealth of experience that needs to be shared. I'm looking forward to watching all your other gold related videos. Thanks for posting.

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  Рік тому +3

      Thanks for the kind words! Much appreciated!

    • @welder67
      @welder67 2 місяці тому

      ​@@Part_Time_Prospector well explained l appreciate your wise and patience way of teaching. Thank you sir

    • @konvikted_fellin8253
      @konvikted_fellin8253 26 днів тому

      I've been looking for what you're talking about and haven't been able to find anything useful I'm hoping you can give me some new ideas

    • @konvikted_fellin8253
      @konvikted_fellin8253 26 днів тому

      Not log into the video man you already got me with a new idea brother you got yourself a new subscriber

  • @donaldkasper8346
    @donaldkasper8346 Рік тому +11

    Very good. Here is Southern California, you hunt the iron saturated quartz that looks like red rust on the faults. They call it reef gold, meaning it is always microscopic. The goldless quartz is the clear to white milky quartz, called bull quartz. Here is the US and Canadian shield, metal bearing ore deposits are commonly in volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) vents of Precambrian age. The sulfide zone forms the top caprock. Stockwork gold is lower down in the pipes and fissures of the vent. Looking top-down, you get the sulfates in the outer ring (aureole), the sulfides ringed inside that and the ore body proper in the center. The common sulfate indicator is barite, often for lead deposits, which mix with gold and silver.

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  Рік тому +1

      It sounds the same here. An old prospector is saying that says something like "gold rides into town on an iron horse".
      So, quartz full of iron is very prospective here and everywhere!
      Thanks for the comment!

    • @illusiontv1195
      @illusiontv1195 Місяць тому

      Same here in the Philippines we have more quarts like what you presents on the vedio

  • @KarlStein-mc3dg
    @KarlStein-mc3dg 4 дні тому

    One of the best explanations I have come across thank you very much.

  • @glentomkins8044
    @glentomkins8044 Рік тому +5

    Thanks for the simple visually aided explanation Bruce, much appreciated!

  • @waltertodd4479
    @waltertodd4479 7 місяців тому +3

    You have much common sense on the nature of where gold lives. Thank you for sharing! My experience in the USA suggests that gold deposits often wear an iron hat and come dressed in a white coat with color that may include red and, or, orange...Believe it or not gold is very common way down deep at the gold layer. What makes gold rare near surface is a lack of transport and porosity mechanisms.

  • @justinh6457
    @justinh6457 Рік тому +10

    Amazing explanation, that just connected all the dots very quickly. Down and dirty! Thank you!

  • @PulsePersonalTraining
    @PulsePersonalTraining Рік тому +2

    I really appreciate your enthusiasm. After watching this, the only thing stopping me from finding gold in western Australia is that I am not in Australia or remotely close. Still, great video.

  • @wdgreg589
    @wdgreg589 Рік тому +8

    Thanks that was a great presentation.The key to successful prospecting is to take your time and think about the knowledge you have learned and apply in the field. Cheers Greg

  • @lenawagner6405
    @lenawagner6405 Рік тому +4

    I always wondered how gold formed. This is so interesting. Very educational. I picked up two pieces of grey and black granite of with small bits of gold in my veggie patch. We live on low hills with, I heard dolomite domes inside. Down at the river I found some of this cement like crumbling rock with very small thin specs or flakes in shiny gold colour. Most of the specs I believe is calcite as it shines white. I have seen outcrops of snow white quarts fault lines running in places next to our streets continuing underneath and popping up on other side of roads, running into some yards. 🥰Thanx. Very interesting. Now I can stop wondering as my books on minerals did not share this expert knowledge.

    • @oldestgamer
      @oldestgamer 10 місяців тому

      Probably not milky quartz, most likely feldspar, you can test to determine.

  • @AgathaR-v5y
    @AgathaR-v5y 4 місяці тому +1

    Great video, a little deeper understanding than the other videos. Loved the explanation of intersecting faults and the formation of rich pockets. Much appreciated.

  • @GaryPArmstrong
    @GaryPArmstrong Рік тому +2

    Hi Greg,
    Your Videos are a breath of fresh air. I have done a course to find gold. Well at least get closer to the gold and have applied it and have succeeded by good fortune or good detecting don't know but yes, I have learned to look for this type of quartz crossed with mineralization and have agreed with you white quartz that covers 90% of the Earth surface and it definitely does not always have gold!
    When I try to explain that gold has come only 5 to 10 klms to the surface of the earth in the goldfields I get a blank stare. People say gold is where it is! What a statement. Gold is getting harder to find if you spend your time around mines and drill holes. Having knowledge of what you have explained here is phenomenal! Keep the videos rolling. Regards and cheers for the New Year.

  • @stevenhigby3512
    @stevenhigby3512 Рік тому +3

    Thank you for sharing so much knowledge with us. Its so nice to learn these things to be able to use in the field.

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  Рік тому

      Glad you got some value out of the video. I really appreciate the positive feedback!

  • @davidtweedie5528
    @davidtweedie5528 Рік тому +3

    Thank you very much
    Really interesting I did like geology at school .loving that I can learn this now .Thanks again

  • @trevorwaligursky962
    @trevorwaligursky962 Рік тому +2

    Great Video! I live on iron ore rich grounds and I’ve seen many different quarts veins and rocks. Very interesting, Thank you for your knowledge

  • @timandrews1613
    @timandrews1613 Рік тому +5

    Brilliant presentation thank you

  • @hashemameli3666
    @hashemameli3666 Рік тому +3

    Hello, God bless you. The explanation of tectonics and formation of gold with quartz was excellent. My question is about the formation of large nuggets similar to the Australian formation. Also, there is fine-grained gold as small as 70 microns in the mines of the Middle East, which is why there are coarse gold nuggets in Australia and Africa. But in the Middle East, gold is 30 to 100 microns? Thank you in advance for your answer.

  • @rt-ks2bh
    @rt-ks2bh 2 місяці тому

    A big thankyou for sharing this information my friend,, i really enjoyed this lesson,,it makes sense without the BS,, i did not know this as in depth as what i just watched,,,,once again a very big thankyou,,cheers

  • @outback109
    @outback109 Рік тому +3

    Great presentation,thank you.
    I know in a previous presentation you mentioned the information available from drill reports ect.
    Perhaps if find time you could do more in depth talk on how to find these reports and obtain the data in them.

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  Рік тому +2

      Thank you. Yes, i will definitely make a video on how to find mining company exploration reports.

  • @outthere9370
    @outthere9370 7 місяців тому +2

    Excellent, thank you! Very interesting how W.A. gold differs from the East. e.g. Victoria. W.A. gold is old gold connected to regional enrichment thru Achean rock. As you stated billions of years old. Typically you find low grade ore in this ancient parent rock. Yet Victoria was the opposite. Volcanism! The East Coast was a "hot" bed. Lot's of "hot" stuff leaking to the surface. Result "large" nuggets!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @damxgopak457
    @damxgopak457 Рік тому +1

    I've crushed and tabled many tons of beautiful brecia here in Arizona seems to have similar geology to areas of Australia but I find little gold so far I would love to live near the Australian gold field great video thanks.

  • @chapwetumelo9601
    @chapwetumelo9601 Рік тому +3

    Great. Learning a lot of stuff

  • @geoffszczypior644
    @geoffszczypior644 2 місяці тому +3

    Piezoelectric effect puts gold in quartz..

    • @konvikted_fellin8253
      @konvikted_fellin8253 26 днів тому

      No it doesn't boss what piezoelectric effects does is turns what would be normally a compact mass of single particle gold Mass and fuses them into gold nuggets or electroplated it to the quartz it already exists within

  • @fauziasayed1715
    @fauziasayed1715 2 місяці тому

    this quartz theory of gold
    Very helpful to me
    Appreciate your style
    Thank you

  • @Stand.Your.Ground.
    @Stand.Your.Ground. Рік тому +2

    I’m in Oregon just wishing I could walk Australia grounds for like a week! Y’all have the coolest gold hunts tbh!

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  Рік тому

      I imagine it would very different from Oregon:)

    • @robanderson4137
      @robanderson4137 12 днів тому

      Oh ya...it's cool as long as you enjoy extreme heat, dust, billions of bugs (in your face), all sorts of poisonous creatures, vast areas of featureless landscape, generally an inhospitable location if ya ask me.

  • @BillSaltbush
    @BillSaltbush 6 місяців тому +1

    Never knew a Seth Efrican who was so helpful. Well done, excellent presentation. ✅

  • @john-draftanimal
    @john-draftanimal 3 місяці тому +1

    You didn't mention the importance of subduction zones of ancient water loaded sedimentary rock, high pressure superheated water dissolving minerals, crystallization of minerals out of that hot solution not magma and injection into rock above

  • @chapwetumelo9601
    @chapwetumelo9601 Рік тому +2

    Thank you for this information.

  • @ouroboros6125
    @ouroboros6125 Рік тому +3

    So if I want to use a "Your mama so fat..." joke on someone who knows geology. I can say "Your mama so fat - she comes last up the fault line" right?
    Bad jokes aside thanks for the content. Very informative.

  • @jamesgless1537
    @jamesgless1537 Рік тому +1

    Like your information just getting into prospecting understanding where to find gold and understand geology.

  • @KyleLewis-o7h
    @KyleLewis-o7h 6 місяців тому +1

    Excellent description! Thank you very much!

  • @ElementofKindness
    @ElementofKindness 6 місяців тому

    Great explanation. Makes it clear that the earth is no longer in a state favorable for new gold deposition, and what we find is only from being placed during the planet's infancy. Also a great visualization as to why the fault strikes alway occur on an angle.

    • @anned8634
      @anned8634 5 місяців тому

      I will have to disagree i worked at a geothermo power plant and the steam carried gold in trace amounts
      along with mercury. Silica iron, and sulfur.
      This means there were quarts veins being formed deep in the earth in the very hot rock.
      This was in Calif USA where it's geological younger and still volcanically more active.
      Australia is not very volcanic anymore and where i have found gold in quarts is all in younger rock less than 100 million years old.
      i have mined gold in old volcanos and in the sierra uplift around 40 million years old formation(mother load country of California USA.)
      i retired as a hard rock gold mine superintendent in 2003 after working my way up from a mucker. and i still go out and metal detect for nuggets in the calif desert.

  • @russellgeorgelindsay6483
    @russellgeorgelindsay6483 Рік тому +1

    Hi Bruce that was a excellent video thank you cant wait for the next

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  Рік тому

      Thanks for the positive feedback. It much appreciated.
      It does motivate me to continue making videos.

  • @josephatherton2781
    @josephatherton2781 8 місяців тому +1

    Thankyou for sharing your good information .

  • @matusknives
    @matusknives 2 місяці тому

    Excellent video, thank you. May I ask why adding Iron to the solution causes the gold to precipitate? Does it 'simply' change the phase diagram of the solution and so at given themperature the gold starts to solidify, or is there some other reason?

  • @markmayer2029
    @markmayer2029 9 місяців тому +2

    I haven't seen all your videos, but would like to see one, where the Au forms in Shales, with a Carbonate gangue.

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  9 місяців тому

      Would love to mate, but I know nothing about Au in carbonates. It's not a gold occurrence I've come across in Western Australia (where my experience is limited to).

    • @patrickmanasco5905
      @patrickmanasco5905 7 місяців тому

      I was under the impression shale wasn’t associated with gold and slate was what you want

    • @markmayer2029
      @markmayer2029 7 місяців тому

      @@patrickmanasco5905 Some very fine pieces of wire gold have been found in shales. Breckenridge, Co at the wire patch, and Liberty, Wa are just a couple examples of incredible wires of Au found in shale with a calcium gangue.

  • @Abouyahya2016
    @Abouyahya2016 5 місяців тому

    Thanks a lot for all these golden scientific informations your brother from morocco

  • @robmadaffari6270
    @robmadaffari6270 Рік тому +1

    Nice work Bruce

  • @brianohehir9515
    @brianohehir9515 6 місяців тому +1

    Cheers thanks for your incites!

  • @namiesnaturals3557
    @namiesnaturals3557 4 місяці тому

    My friend has few acres n rocks all white few black lines other rock a little brownish/orangy color one is 33 lbs. Lots smaller rocks too at ground some lg flattish rocks protruding other areas. In Lancaster Co pa. Should he look deeper?

  • @GraemeWight-wx3xz
    @GraemeWight-wx3xz Рік тому

    Monzanite intrusions and as it cools in the zones thats where you get that juicy shiny.. slicknslides clay zones into Argilic alteration zones, porhyritic zones, in replacement series, manganese, iron, copper, sulphur Arsenic etc, in contact with carbonate zones , roses, bands in quartz episodal growth series. But i know you know all that. I find it all fascinating.

  • @HeWhoHath
    @HeWhoHath 6 місяців тому

    Super educational! Thank you.

  • @michaelbeeby6648
    @michaelbeeby6648 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for the great information. I believe that most reefs run in a North - South orientation. Is this true and if so, why does this happen? Thanks, I look forward to watching more of your presentations.

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  Рік тому +3

      Hi Michael, the quartz reefs follow the trend of the general faulting in the area. So, in some cases it is north-south, and in other locations, it can be east-west. Look for the big long faults on the geological map, they are your gold mineralization directions. I'll see if I can find some screenshots that show how this direction can change and post them back here.

  • @Ken-fw7ue
    @Ken-fw7ue 3 місяці тому

    Thank you you answered alot of questions.

  • @markbelanger5757
    @markbelanger5757 8 місяців тому +1

    Thankyou very much! i have to do more reading. Any suggestions on books?

  • @jacksprat9972
    @jacksprat9972 11 місяців тому

    Are you talking about a greenstone belt hosted gold deposits like Abiibi in Canada?

  • @120downunder
    @120downunder Рік тому

    Awesome stuff, well done 👍

  • @chadochado6951
    @chadochado6951 15 днів тому

    I may be wrong but if our earth gets cracked and filled with other minerals from below is the size of our earth getting bigger ??? Thank you for the video 😊😊😊

  • @wdgreg589
    @wdgreg589 Рік тому +1

    Hi again Bruce, just a question.What has more important reference to a gold location on the top of the surface,a fault or a shear zone .Thanks Greg

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  Рік тому

      Both are important! But I think you find longer reefs in faults whereas in shear zones you seem to find much shorter veins but there can be many, many veins close together.
      Both are well worth investigating.
      I hope this helps.

  • @admiralgoodboy
    @admiralgoodboy Місяць тому

    A latest study by ABC Science suggests the formation of these nuggets may be due to electricity generated by the pressure of earthquakes - a phenomenon known as piezoelectricity

  • @ryos251
    @ryos251 10 місяців тому +1

    Fantastic!

  • @josephbeharrysingh9904
    @josephbeharrysingh9904 Рік тому +2

    Great video ,

  • @beytullahbarut9193
    @beytullahbarut9193 Рік тому

    Hello my teacher
    I want to look for gold. I came across quartz stones, but I'm not sure if it's gold. How can I be sure?

  • @passiononfire
    @passiononfire Рік тому +1

    Bro I subscribe. How can I not when Russell crowe's teaching me about precious metals ! 😂😂 Awesome video dude, How many times have you heard that in your life... Keep it coming Man I'm loving your content

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  Рік тому +1

      Thanks for the sub! Much appreciated!

    • @passiononfire
      @passiononfire Рік тому +2

      Dude keep going with it man because you're very likable and speak plainly enough for the folks like myself that don't know what a geothermal hyper conductive subquatic a fissure or a Transatlantic seismic Coriolis displacement fracture (all made up) is lol and you come across with integrity and very much down to earth my friend keep rocking out! And thank you so much from Baltimore Maryland USA!

  • @Bonamici
    @Bonamici 8 місяців тому +2

    Thank you!! 💛💙

  • @aeonrose7044
    @aeonrose7044 6 місяців тому

    It's helps me, of some how valuable stones come s from Jamaica wi, and seems some amount of goals as it's fine will tell s.

  • @mex6623
    @mex6623 Рік тому +2

    Could I suggest to you that quartz turns into gold due to its interaction with cosmic energies that are constantly bombarding and travelling through the earth. Quartz over a long period of time turns into gold.

    • @troyounce7935
      @troyounce7935 8 місяців тому +2

      Are you saying quartz rock turns into gold ? Like if a quartz rock was left for millions of years that rock will turn into gold ?

    • @mex6623
      @mex6623 8 місяців тому

      @@troyounce7935That's right mate.

    • @mex6623
      @mex6623 8 місяців тому

      @@troyounce7935That's right mate.

    • @mex6623
      @mex6623 7 місяців тому +1

      @@troyounce7935Exactly this yes.

    • @philipMorris-e9q
      @philipMorris-e9q 6 місяців тому +2

      Incorrect

  • @peterburke8650
    @peterburke8650 6 місяців тому +1

    Thanks great job.

  • @markbelanger5757
    @markbelanger5757 7 місяців тому

    Now when all that gold over millions of years washed into the sea, since its very heavy is it at the bottom of the sea? like the bering sea?

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  6 місяців тому

      Some areas of the sea bed must be really rich in gold. I guess the hostility of the ocean and the depths are what make it uneconomic at today's gold prices!

  • @albertperson4013
    @albertperson4013 6 місяців тому +2

    Lightning strikes can turn quartz into gold. Believe it or not!

    • @JadedHunter
      @JadedHunter 6 місяців тому +1

      My friend, good job on thinking of electrical metamorphosis.
      Are you familiar with Andrew Hall's work?
      I think you will find it interesting.
      I've been looking at Oz from his paradigm and research.
      We have so many anomalies here, mainstream doesn't explain them well at all

  • @markbelanger5757
    @markbelanger5757 7 місяців тому

    Now when the quarts moves up into the crack is it liquid? Is it soft. or is it solid?

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  6 місяців тому

      Like toothpaste!

    • @anned8634
      @anned8634 5 місяців тому

      @@Part_Time_Prospector it moves up as a super heated quartz gel under so much pressure it can not flash to steam.

  • @JS-jh4cy
    @JS-jh4cy Рік тому

    Is it because of mineralization of the hot crust squishing molten gold around

    • @JS-jh4cy
      @JS-jh4cy Рік тому +1

      Quartz doesn't it have similar melting characteristics and chemical stickiness to hot gold?

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  Рік тому

      Good question! I'm not a chemist, so Im not sure of the exact differences; so I can't give you any detailed descriptions. I explained it as I understand the proess working.

  • @LyleThompson-lo3xp
    @LyleThompson-lo3xp 2 дні тому

    How do you no whats down there

  • @bobcatman3844
    @bobcatman3844 Рік тому +1

    Cool

  • @greenlionalchemy2425
    @greenlionalchemy2425 Рік тому +1

    Ouch so 20 minutes until we get the answer to why gold forms in quartz?

  • @sku32956
    @sku32956 Рік тому +1

    Gold is very rare 3 parts per billion .

    • @Part_Time_Prospector
      @Part_Time_Prospector  Рік тому

      It's not easy to find. That's why you need every advantage working for you.

  • @DrDanMD
    @DrDanMD Місяць тому

    Hec yea

  • @GlennHird-gb4ug
    @GlennHird-gb4ug 5 місяців тому

    Ta

  • @shots-shots-shotseverybody2707
    @shots-shots-shotseverybody2707 6 місяців тому +2

    Not to pick you out of geologist because I laugh at all geologist or anyone else it says it took Q billion or 5 billion or 1 billion years that developed in that take place when it's not observable nontestable and non-scientific to say that it's all speculation and I guess when we canthe processes within hours in a laboratory which you and other geologist most or what the other ones are saying without giving it any thought no it didn't take that many years at all it took hundreds of years maybe billions of years

    • @shots-shots-shotseverybody2707
      @shots-shots-shotseverybody2707 6 місяців тому +1

      The deepest hole ever dug in the world was just about 7 miles deep and it took 23 years and it was a coalition between the Russians and some Americans and they had to walk away from it every time they tried to guess what they were gonna hit before they drilled there they were wrong. Geologist scientist and research have no idea what's below or even what's above 7 miles below the mantle or the crust of the don't know what happened there. We don't know what's happening there now and we're never gonna know that based on the pace in science isn't developing, but to say that this came from magma 5000 billion years ago was just asinine and I'm not trying to pick on you. I'm picking on anyone that tells us this ridiculous theory.

  • @johnfurey936
    @johnfurey936 6 місяців тому

    The thing obvious is the bs

  • @marcdefant6027
    @marcdefant6027 2 місяці тому

    The first thing that struck me was that you know very little about geolgical processes. You used the term suck up when speaking about movement in a fault zone. Have you had any education in geology? You also do not comprehend what differentiation is. When geologists speak of differentiation in magama chambers we are talking about minerals that crystalize from the magma and either sink or rise. But you seem to be talking about elements like Au, Ag, Cu. They have nothing to do with crystal differentiation. As minerals like olivine, pyroxene, and plagioclase start to crystalize, they form with very few trace elements in their structures. This concentrates elements like Au and Ag in the magma. You do not appear to be familiar with Bowen's reaction series. You talk about quartz being at the top of the magma chamber because it is light. Well that is not true. Quartz is the last thing to form. Si which is a major component of quartz (the other being O) is concentrated in the magma as the other minerals in BRS settle out or rise to the top (plag up and OL PX down). Not only is Si being concentrated but other elements/compunds are also - such as Au and Ag and water. It is the water that carries the Si and precious metals into fractures. You don't necessarily need faults either. This is the reason why you have quartz forming with gold. It is carried in hydrous fluids and deposited. Good lord. And I suggest you go and learn about orogenic gold deposits which are probably not formed from magmas but metamorphism with hydrous fluids. You should not be making videos because you read a book. I stopped listening after the first 6 minutes so maybe you managed to get a few things right after I turned it off. you seem like a nice fellow but a geologist you are not.

  • @Loveyou-bb9bg
    @Loveyou-bb9bg Рік тому

    gold is heavy and have nothing to do with gold going up! Gold is in our blood, so when you die the gold in your blood will go to the lowest part of your body to the ground! There were Giants in the Earth! Read the bible, the word of God!

    • @mikebirnie6381
      @mikebirnie6381 7 місяців тому

      You could well be correct...somehow it " arrived "...
      Blessings