Sampling stream sediments for gold in mineral exploration, southern British Columbia

The problems encountered by mineral explorationists when sampling stream sediments for gold were investigated by considering the sparsity of free gold particles and their tendency to form small placers at certain locations in the stream bed. Fourteen 20-kg samples of -5-mm sediment were collected f...

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Main Author: Day, Stephen John
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27869