Gold, Faults and Fluids

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  @hopebear06 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Wow! That's my great uncles mine. Bill Spargo (The Hotham Hermit) lived up there for 27 years. He had a hunch that the Ballarat goldfields ran through the high country. Whilst prospecting he spotted a Red Robin sitting on some quartz which became the Red Robin mine.

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  @paullennox7410 · 6 years ago

  Great work Clive. Thanks for putting these videos together.

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  @withinwithout1 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Incredible knowledge<br>Thanks for sharing<br>Hopefully I can find more gold on the surface now. I&apos;ve allways loved rocks I actually found a water warn quartz boulder that contains volcanic opal behind Coffs Harbour in the old gold feild. it was my boulder opal mining day&apos;s that made it catch my attention and on closer inspection with my Geo hammer that confirmed my suspicions visible clearly under my loop. I showed and gave Mac at Bellingen opal shop a few of the peices he laughed and said they may contain gold but definitely not Opal when he saw it his words were this belongs in the Australian museum. I still have the king stone I never showed him.<br>Cheers Bruce

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  @rond5323 · 5 years ago

  Fascinating series; you are re-enthusing this amateur geologist! Thanks

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  @roncrouse1469 · 1 year ago

  Videos like this help educate the general public, in addition to retired geologists like myself. &nbsp;Many thanks!

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  @Rockhounding-with-Bigfoot · 8 years ago

  Watch from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDexpMBAs6M&amp;t=499">8:19</a> to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDexpMBAs6M&amp;t=633">10:33</a> all you GOLD HOUNDS out there. Its a bit of some jewel of wisdom.

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  @oddball746 · 5 years ago (edited)

  I know it&apos;s an old vid but I like to add that I&apos;m on the earthquake ride, but I lean much more toward the bridging effect of the crust over a pluton taking away the weight of the rock above and leaving much less weight over the pressurized pluton and that makes it easy for the fluids to push up, crack and fill the fishers. Lateral pressures can ease up and the bridging loses it&apos;s effect returning the weight. Several episodes will leave the same streaked veins. An earthquake would be a side effect not a cause.

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  @GeoFubar · 2 months ago

  Fascinating!

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  @frankus54 · 12 years ago

  These are great videos. thanks for going to the trouble to product these.

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  @bentationfunkiloglio · 4 years ago

  Very informative and well produced. Enjoyed this video immensely.

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  @Rawfa08 · 4 months ago (edited)

  In California, the Kern River valley has multiple fault zones. All along and around the faults are gold and tungsten mines. The towns of &nbsp;Havilah, Bodfish and lake Isabella all lay in this zone. I have found decent gold by the hot springs near by. I want to find a source. Probably some outcropping feeding the creeks upstream. Google maps shows a promising area

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  @ethanrichardson885 · 5 years ago

  All geologist can relate to great ideas starting with beers at the pub with fellow geologists!