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2. Quartz reef mining - Wikipedia

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   Quartz reef mining is a type of gold mining in "reefs" ( veins [ 1]) of quartz . Quartz is one of the most common minerals in the Earth's crust, and most quartz veins do not carry gold, but those that have gold are avidly hunted by prospectors. In the shallow, oxidized zones of quartz reef deposits, the gold occurs in its metallic state, and is ...

3. Mother lode - Wikipedia

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   The zone contains hundreds of mines and prospects, including some of the best-known historic mines of the gold-rush era. Individual gold deposits within the Mother Lode are gold-bearing quartz veins up to 15 metres (49 ft) thick and a few thousand feet long. The California Mother Lode was one of the most productive gold-producing districts in ...

4. Comstock Lode - Wikipedia

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   The gold from Gold Canyon came from quartz veins, toward the head of the vein, in the vicinity of where Silver City and Gold Hill now stand. As the miners worked their way up the stream, they founded the town of Johntown on a plateau. In 1857, the Johntown miners found gold in Six-Mile Canyon, which is about five miles (8 km) north of Gold Canyon.

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6. Orogenic gold deposit - Wikipedia

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   An orogenic gold deposit is a type of hydrothermal mineral deposit. More than 75% of the gold recovered by humans through history belongs to the class of orogenic gold deposits. [1] Rock structure is the primary control of orogenic gold mineralization at all scales, as it controls both the transport and deposition processes of the mineralized ...

7. Welsh gold - Wikipedia

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   Welsh gold is not a unique material substance. It is chemically identical to gold mined anywhere else. [1][2] Its name is purely derived from the place it was mined, not the place it was created, or for any scientific reason. [3] In North Wales gold is often found in a band stretching from Barmouth, past Dolgellau and up towards Snowdonia.