Don't just look for quartz. These Black Rocks Hide The Gold Nuggets!

0:01 Hey guys, so glad we can catch up again.

0:04 It's been quite a long time.

0:06 I'm really keen to show you a technique to really turbocharge your

0:12 gold prospecting location, research workflow sounds all complicated and

0:19 corporate-y, but it's a couple of steps to go through, with every step

0:23 that you go through you are increasing your probability of finding more gold.

0:29 Gold has to form in the right environments.

0:32 here I'm talking about a different type of environment.

0:35 Historically, I personally is a content creator here on YouTube, have created

0:43 methodologies and techniques for you guys to follow, to look for gold

0:47 that occurs in quartz veins or in basically solid

0:51 rock, for one of a better word, primary gold deposits.

0:55 What I'm showing you today is gold that forms in secondary deposits.

1:01 This is Remobilize Gold.

1:04 And in some cases, be can become very rich, What I'm talking

1:10 about here is finding gold in.

1:15 The well-known regolithic soil type labeled as CZL.

1:20 this is Cenozoic Lateri tic soils.

1:24 These are pisolitic rich laterite soils, pisolites basically are

1:30 little round nodules of iron.

1:33 I've got a couple here.

1:34 This is one about this big.

1:36 They're only about the size of a pea, sometimes smaller, many times

1:39 smaller, sometimes quite round.

1:42 Very hard, dark brown to almost black, sometimes very black.

1:47 Sometimes with manganese stain.

1:49 If you break them open, you can see circular type structures inside

1:53 them as they've grown over time as.

1:55 More and more iron joins the outside of the, pisolite Sometimes they're

2:00 magnetic, sometimes they're not.

2:02 It depends on the iron concentration, and so they're labeled on maps as CZL.

2:09 Now, a way to find them, I call this up on Trilobyte.

2:14 And here's the well known mapping of trial of art.

2:18 I've put on the simple geology and you can see the different types of rocks.

2:26 And here is CZL.

2:28 But if you zoom out a bit, It is actually quite hard to find the

2:33 locations and so you have to zoom in a long way to find the CZL, and then

2:39 you have to pan about and try and remember where all the locations are.

2:44 Now, sure, you can drop a pin at each of the CZL locations, but the

2:49 technique, what I'm showing you here.

2:52 Trilobyte was never really designed to handle this work flow.

2:55 It's designed for a different type of process altogether.

2:59 I haven't seen many types of applications that can handle this

3:02 workflow, but I'm gonna present a tool at the end of this that can

3:09 potentially make it a lot easier for.

3:12 So ideally what you wanna do is you wanna find these cz ls.

3:16 And here's a good example.

3:17 One just here with the hopefully you can see the mouse.

3:20 So this is one right in the middle, Not all CZL carry gold.

3:25 So why would one CZL carry gold and not another?

3:30 If you've watched a couple of my videos, you will know that I love to

3:34 draw pictures to explain concepts.

3:36 What we wanna do is a picture of a highly stylized cross section through the ground.

3:43 we're gonna have a surface of the ground.

3:47 Okay, I'm along and let's pretend there's a bit of a hill here and we've got some

3:51 trees growing on top of the surface.

3:54 Now what we've also got here, and I'll use some blue in this one, is

3:58 we've got a fault zone, shear zone.

4:02 What do you like to call them?

4:04 Let's call it a, just call it a structure for this moment that let's

4:08 sit sits down here and it is going off towards the center of the earth.

4:15 It's got foliation and breaks in it, and inside this structure, we've

4:20 got a gold bearing lode coming up through there and maybe more than one.

4:27 Okay.

4:28 Going back to the black.

4:30 So over time, as you must probably see it in previous videos, what

4:34 happens here is, and I'm just gonna change the color to say a light blue.

4:38 In this case, what happens is the rain comes down, okay?

4:43 And it soaks into the rock and starts to weather the rock

4:48 down to a particular point.

4:50 And this point can be somewhere down about here.

4:54 Yeah, and obviously deeper in the flat country and shallowing up

4:59 considerably as we go in the hills.

5:02 So because this is a structure, this blue bit here is a quartz bearing structure

5:09 that is highly foliated, potentially with altered mineralization inside them.

5:15 The structure around the outside will actually dip down like this.

5:19 And so you'll end up with a trough or what appears to be like a trough

5:23 or a extended bit of the overburden going down inside here that allows

5:28 the water to pool inside here.

5:31 down here, this is the solid rock.

5:34 Okay?

5:35 Solid rock in here.

5:37 And this is this area out here is the basically non-solid rock.

5:43 And so as the winter which is our rainy season, the water table moves up.

5:48 It goes up and, drops in summer, obviously, as it d dries out.

5:53 So you've got this pumping process taking place, going up, down, up, down, up, down.

6:00 Now, as this is a regolithic profile, we are gonna have iron-rich

6:05 zones that are trapped inside you from alternating periods of.

6:12 Regular generation.

6:14 So in this case here, we could have had some CZL down here.

6:18 It might have been covered by some dirt coming down the hill.

6:22 We potentially got some more formed at the top again, and this is the

6:25 stuff that's showing up on the map.

6:28 What is happening underneath here is that the, groundwater

6:32 starts to circulate, okay?

6:36 As it gets pumped up and down, pumped up and down, pumped down.

6:39 As it rises up and down, and the quartz bearing gold starts to break

6:47 apart because it'll have iron.

6:49 Minerals in it.

6:50 The iron minerals start to corrode and rust basically, and chunks

6:54 of quarts start breaking apart.

6:55 Releasing the gold.

6:57 The gold can go into solution in the correct chemical environment.

7:02 So, we've got some water coming down the hill.

7:05 Flowing down, and that's adding to the flow cycle as it's happening inside this.

7:10 Now, if there is another structure up here, for example, and it could

7:14 just be a, like a leader vein,

7:16 Thin fault, maybe multiples of them, and one or two of them may

7:22 have a. Auriferous Reef in there.

7:24 Basically gold bearing could only be a few millimeters

7:27 thick, maybe a millimeter thick.

7:30 And again, it's starting to break away.

7:33 Some of it's turning into solution itself is moving down and this gold

7:38 in the solution suddenly finds these pisolitic rich layers and starts to

7:45 precipitate out Okay, so attaches to them around them, or between them.

7:52 Now some of these things are gonna have a combination of both mechanical gold,

7:58 that's run down the slope and broken free, just like you find in rivers

8:04 and in more wetter parts of the world.

8:09 And chemically precipitated gold taking place.

8:12 So it could be a combination of both.

8:14 So if you only grabbed one sample from a CZL layer and took it for a sample, it

8:20 could come back potentially as either.

8:23 now we know why gold is forming in the CZL, how do we find these

8:29 CZL layers that are the most prospective to search for this time

8:34 we are talking in plan view year.

8:37 So what we've got here is we've got a CZL in a plan, and we

8:44 might have another one out here.

8:46 And we've got some fault veins running through.

8:50 So we've got a fault vein that comes, a fault vein, a fault zone, let's

8:55 say a one that comes through here.

8:56 This is the highly stylized example.

9:00 It is don't look for an exact copy of this because you have to use

9:05 some artistic license, but I'm trying to keep it as simple as

9:09 possible so everyone can understand.

9:11 So straight away we've got CZL.

9:15 Okay, and let's, so let's CZL.

9:22 Okay.

9:24 Fault vein fault, zone.

9:26 Running through there and no fault zone out here.

9:29 what we'd like to see is a couple of locations on this fault zone of.

9:36 Old workings.

9:38 that shows us that this structure has carried gold in the past.

9:44 And there may be more locations that are gold bearing, but may not

9:50 be economic in the primary or, but could be economic in the secondary.

9:56 we now know we have a CZL, an Iron H zone.

10:00 We actually have a fault zone.

10:04 So looking promising at this front.

10:06 But over here we have CZL, but no fault zone.

10:10 And then to really add some fun to things.

10:15 Wouldn't it be cool if we actually had some, somebody

10:19 had taken some soil samples.

10:22 And these were, let's say, let's see if we can make some nice purple ones

10:27 anomalous in gold across the zone.

10:32 Now anomalous means basically means better than background,

10:38 so you have to look around.

10:39 So if these values are out here, or like 1, 5, 1.

10:46 Maybe six, and these are 20, 30, 15, 7.

10:54 You would have to say that this zone is anomalous.

10:58 Okay?

10:58 It's better than the background, which is these values out here.

11:03 So this is the key points to look for.

11:07 You wanna seize that L You wanna fault?

11:10 You wanna fault that, preferably.

11:12 Has a known goal producing zones on it.

11:15 And if, you can get some cell samples on top of it, happy days.

11:21 Now this fault zone doesn't have to run smack bank through the middle of it.

11:25 So workflow find CZL on map.

11:31 Sorry for the terrible handwriting.

11:34 I probably should have been a doctor in real life.

11:37 Okay.

11:38 Find the CZL, not on LIVE leases.

11:45 In other words, we want to find places where we can actually go to.

11:48 There's no point in identifying the perfect prime location, and then when you

11:52 get this right in the middle of a active mining list, there's no point in doing

11:56 that you can, so that's eliminate all the places we can't go, and it's this's also

12:03 references things like aboriginal land.

12:05 You're not allowed on national parks, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

12:08 Okay, three.

12:11 Where does CZL and faults occur?

12:16 Okay.

12:17 Key one form CCZL plus faults, plus gold deposits that are nearby.

12:30 Five, and this is the sort of cream on the cake if you can

12:34 get it, is all of the above

12:38 plus soil samples that are anomalous.

12:44 I hope I spelled that right.

12:46 And cam.

12:47 Doesn't look right, but I think there's an A in there somewhere.

12:50 I think that's supposed to be an A. So that's what we are looking for.

12:54 We wanna fund caid on the map that's not covered by live leases.

12:59 It has false in or near.

13:00 It has gold deposits around it and preferably has anomalous soil samples.

13:07 So if we go back to our example with the Trilobyte.

13:11 here we can see there is CZL.

13:14 There's a fault coming through here.

13:16 Now, unfortunately, I've had to reformat foot my phone and

13:19 I've lost some of my data.

13:20 But you can turn on the gold locations and you can try and find the those, zones and.

13:27 So let's see if I can turn some of these on.

13:30 Oops, now I have got them.

13:32 So there's the gold locations no overlays, gold deposits.

13:38 So there's some of the gold deposits and we are looking

13:42 now we've got a scroll around.

13:45 And look for CZL to see where they all line up.

13:50 Okay, so we're saying on, this structure down here, there's, and you could

13:56 say maybe the structure runs more like through here than across here.

14:00 There is gold over here.

14:02 There may be some gold, there's a structure, but doesn't

14:05 seem to be gold bearing.

14:07 But this could take a lot of time.

14:09 This can take a lot of time.

14:11 This is where I wanna show you the tool that is available.

14:15 I'll talk about it first and then I'll show you how you can get access to it.

14:20 this, is a tool that I've put together to aid this whole process and many, other

14:26 processes of finding gold and can, so we can go into the, geology, for example.

14:33 And we can turn on the mapping and we can zoom all the way in and you can

14:38 see we've got some CZL, some granites, blah, blah, blah, floating around.

14:44 Okay.

14:45 All very nice.

14:46 That if you drag across and drop on you, this shows the location of all the CZL.

14:55 Okay?

14:57 That does not occur on LA of Leases.

15:00 Okay?

15:01 That's why some of these things have got funny.

15:03 Sharp ves.

15:04 So that's a example that we can show you something here.

15:07 Let's go and turn on live releases.

15:10 And you can see how this has been truncated against the live leases.

15:14 So as I change the opacity of the live of leases, you can see that

15:20 none of these purple outlined polygons fall on live leases.

15:26 So these are all polygons that are potentially targets, goal targets.

15:33 Now, if we go into the, back, into the section, here we go on.

15:37 And under geology structures, faults and shears, we could turn

15:41 on the one at 500,000 K mapping.

15:45 And they have some nice faults in there.

15:48 And so you can see the faults that come in.

15:51 Now these are the major structures, so these are looking quite promising.

15:56 And then if we go back to gold and we turn on gold locations,

16:00 we can start to see those zones.

16:04 So there's some structures coming through here.

16:06 Nothing here looks super exciting to tell you the truth.

16:10 So let's zoom out a bit and there's a couple of interesting spots

16:15 now if I can try and find it.

16:16 Remember, look at this mess of intersections, of faults and CZL.

16:22 Now we can see these faults are coming up through here.

16:26 They splitting and weaving and changing direction.

16:30 But if you look underneath here, there's obviously some live

16:34 leases out here and some active leases, but these look not bad.

16:41 Okay.

16:42 What I've got here is also the, absolute latest soil sampling data

16:46 from the old Mers or now Department of Mines, petroleum and Exploration.

16:53 And we can put on the soil samples.

16:55 So if you zoom into the soil samples, you can actually see there's actually

17:00 a bit of an anomalous zone here.

17:02 And on this one here, you can actually see there's a CZL not covered by any loud

17:09 leases that may be covered by pending.

17:11 Let's have a look.

17:12 It's covered by pending, but that's all right.

17:14 Allow down there.

17:15 And there's some higher grades inside here.

17:17 So if we click on it, so first we have to choose the layer.

17:20 That you want to query and choose this, it'll say that there's a sample of 72 ppb.

17:26 Okay?

17:28 Pierre is another, what is that one?

17:31 68. And so there's definitely some sort of structure coming through here

17:38 running sub parallel to the structure.

17:41 Does that mean that's, that fault is definitely there?

17:45 No.

17:46 Could easily be running right through here.

17:48 It's their best interpretation from.

17:51 Coarse grain and mapping.

17:52 So there's a potential gold site to go and visit another one up here.

17:58 This area has been heavily sampled, but I doubt this has been sampled at all.

18:03 Could be worth a visit.

18:04 And there is some anomalous zones inside there.

18:07 This is looking, I thought it was interesting, but no it's not.

18:11 Okay.

18:12 So I'm not gonna go too much more on this, but it does show

18:16 you how you can actually sample.

18:20 So what you can do is with let's zoom in.

18:25 And I'm just gonna use this as an area, for example, of

18:27 some of the tools inside you.

18:29 So what you can do is you can actually change the opacity so

18:33 you can see what's underneath.

18:35 You can change the order of things.

18:38 So for example, at the moment, the CZL later I put in is at the

18:45 bottom of all the things I can grab this little hamburger type icon.

18:50 And drag it to the top.

18:51 Now you can see how that suddenly, that appeared on top here,

18:54 making it much easier to, see.

18:57 I can turn off layers at any particular time, and also got

19:02 access to things like geophysics.

19:05 So let's turn on the RTP geophysics But this is covering up my, the information.

19:11 So again, I can drag this thing to the top and I can drag, my CZL to the top.

19:20 Now I can see where does these things sit on top of each other,

19:23 and I can actually change.

19:25 And it's interesting how this anomalous zone through here okay, is actually quite

19:34 correlated with the geophysics underneath.

19:38 Okay.

19:39 So why doesn't this bit show up?

19:43 Change of direction, change of sampling.

19:46 Procedures, change a whole bunch of things.

19:49 And so it allows you to query into the data.

19:53 I'm gonna turn this geophysics off, turn source samples off that.

19:59 So if we go back and look at some of the data sets, I have to zoom out a bit.

20:04 Obviously we've got.

20:06 These are all the live leases.

20:07 If you zoom in, you get some information.

20:10 If I select the live lease, click anywhere in it.

20:13 I will get some information about the lease and who holds

20:17 it and et cetera, et cetera.

20:19 Okay.

20:20 One thing that you can do inside here is actually if you go to the the,

20:25 your account, you type in search.

20:29 And actually choose lease id, you can actually search for release.

20:33 So let's say we go M 63 13.

20:37 Okay, press enter, boom, there's the lease, and I've got whatever

20:43 information I had turned on about it.

20:46 So I can actually, it's put it as a separate layer, which means that

20:51 for any time I can choose one of the, little more buttons, click

20:56 that and I can actually download.

20:58 It has a Geo JCSV and then can take that Geo J and load it into trial

21:04 art or something else that takes geo Jason files, which is quite handy.

21:08 so let's turn off that one and let's turn off that one.

21:12 So we've got the live, we've got the pending same thing.

21:17 Soil samples across the place.

21:19 It shows black when zoomed out.

21:21 As you get in the data gets more and warm.

21:24 Okay.

21:24 We've got the D drill holes that are across the state.

21:27 And there's awful lot of them turning them off because we're starting

21:31 to become very noisy, well known gold locations across the state.

21:37 Mines and deposits.

21:40 And this is also, we've got, which there's some duplicates

21:44 with the abandoned mine project.

21:47 We've covered geophysics.

21:50 With this data set, there is the one to a million, one to a hundred

21:54 thousand scaled mosaic of all one to hundred thousand geological

22:00 mapping across the entire state.

22:03 Now, as you can see for GSWA geological survey, WA are also called.

22:09 And Joel Survey wa it's actually a, work in progress.

22:14 They haven't done the whole state, MS probably never will get to it,

22:18 Unfortunately, this is not a queryable data set, so you have to

22:22 understand what the symbols were.

22:24 It was never going to be a critical data set because it's only a Rasta image.

22:28 You have to find out the information around it.

22:32 There's the one to million, which is a much coser data set, but this

22:36 one is actually is queryable and you can actually query this one

22:40 and get some information out of it.

22:42 Then you go into the faults, which are really handy and they both want to, to.

22:48 500,000 scale mapping and the one to a hundred thousand scale

22:51 mapping, which can be considerably more depending on where you are.

22:55 So if I turn off, you can see the mass of faults, but this is pre predominantly

23:00 routed from the the 100,000 scale mapping.

23:05 There is towns sites that you can pop on to see for basically locations and

23:12 for getting permission to go to areas.

23:15 Now, member, you don't technically have to get permission to enter a pastoral

23:20 property, but it's always advisable to tell the pastoralist that you're gonna

23:27 be on black flag station, for example.

23:31 And where you're going to be.

23:34 And they can tell you if they're doing any sort of mustering in

23:37 the area or shooting, or stock control or whatever else like that.

23:41 And also, if anything happens, like there's a bushfire coming, they

23:44 know who's on their property and who they have to actually contact.

23:47 So that information there, unfortunately this data set is not queryable

23:53 as much as I would like it to be.

23:56 It is contains rudimentary information that's available from demur and

24:01 de herd as an ag department.

24:05 And so they don't give away the contact details.

24:07 If you want the contact details, you actually have to contact Demers

24:12 by phone and they will then you say, I want to contact Black Flag

24:16 Station to go on their property.

24:17 They will then give you the telephone number and contact person and then

24:22 use up to you to contact them.

24:23 So that's the best I can do on this front.

24:27 So if you want to use this website, go and visit gold prospecting wa.com.

24:36 Okay.

24:37 This will allow you in.

24:39 It is a Pay site.

24:40 It currently costs $10 a month.

24:42 Or $90 a year, you get a lot of information, all the information, and

24:47 I'm throwing even more information at as well as I find additional

24:51 information that's helpful.

24:53 what I have got on this thing is something that will, for the first.

24:57 15 or so people that sign up here, it is like she's 11 now.

25:02 I'll give you free access to this website for life as long as

25:07 you promise to give me a review.

25:08 But remember, it's limited to the first 11 people, and by the time you've seen this

25:13 probably is down to about one person left.

25:15 So pull out your name details and I'll get back to you with the details after that.

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