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  2. Quartz reef mining - Wikipedia

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    Quartz reef breaking the surface at Paynes Find, Western Australia. 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.

  3. Vein (geology) - Wikipedia

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    In situ gold-bearing vein (in brown) at the Toi gold mine, Japan. In many gold mines exploited during the gold rushes of the 19th century, vein material alone was typically sought as ore material. [8] In most of today's mines, ore material is primarily composed of the veins and some component of the wall rocks which surrounds the veins. [9]

  4. 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 ...

  5. Lode - Wikipedia

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    Gold-bearing quartz veins, Blue Ribbon Mine, Alaska. In geology, a lode is a deposit of metalliferous ore that fills or is embedded in a fracture (or crack) in a rock formation or a vein of ore that is deposited or embedded between layers of rock. [1]

  6. Orogenic gold deposit - Wikipedia

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    Quartz is generally the dominant mineral in the veins, but there are also gold bearing carbonate dominant veins in orogenic deposits. [15] Ore bodies of orogenic gold deposits are generally defined by ≤ 3–5% sulfide minerals, most commonly arsenopyrite in metasedimentary host rocks and pyrite /pyrrhotite in meta-igneous rocks, and ≤ 5 ...

  7. Comstock Lode - Wikipedia

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    After nine years, the Gold Canyon placers were producing less, and many miners left for the Mono Lake placers. [2]: 2 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 ...

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