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roughrockxxx	gold in coal	#81	[-]
Posts: 83 (04/29/09 08:02 PM) Arm Chair Treasure Hunter Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I read a story in the archives of the local paper of people finding gold in talic along coal seams in some parts of the basin
mrjimsfc		#82	[-]
Posts: 328 (04/30/09 07:51 AM) Blistered foot, calloused hand digger Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	What does "in talic" mean? True equality-the power to make a successful stand against tyranny-inevitably flows from the barrel of a gun.
sanpet	coal &gold	#83	[-]
Posts: 62 (04/30/09 08:42 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	roughrockxxx wrote: I read a story in the archives of the local paper of people finding gold in talic along coal seams in some parts of the basin Yes there can be gold in a coal mine. But not in coal itself. Gold could be in the ribs, roof and floor. But not in coal.
Lostaslost	Gold in Coal!	#84	[-]
Posts: 163 (04/30/09 01:04 PM) Weekend exporer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Sanpet I do not want to argue with a coal miner on this issue. I am saying that I am positive that I have actually read this in minning reports. I think they where drilling exploration holes to get an idea of the coal. My understanding of this was gold was coming right up in the coal. Now, yes this really does not make any since at all if a guy knows where coal originated from. I am just saying I read this. Now maybe it did come thru when the coal was broken thru and then into rock and or the seems and talic you are talking about. I do not know but I do think I know that you have coal mined basically all of you life. So the saying that gold is where you find it is not always true! As for the mine that had info on it dealing with Caleb, again it was not sitting right with the gold mine but just guessing right now and with out a map out in front of me I will say it was something like 1/2 a mile away and this is certainly a rough guess. This is on some of the info if a guy is reading but I doubt that to many people have put it all together. I think the Utes would know this. Gale Rhoads undoubtable knew it as he was the one writting and I know that he had located the mine. The Utes also know this. Lost
sanpet	coal and gold	#85	[-]
Posts: 63 (04/30/09 02:16 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Lostaslost wrote: Sanpet I do not want to argue with a coal miner on this issue. I am saying that I am positive that I have actually read this in minning reports. I think they where drilling exploration holes to get an idea of the coal. My understanding of this was gold was coming right up in the coal. Now, yes this really does not make any since at all if a guy knows where coal originated from. I am just saying I read this. Now maybe it did come thru when the coal was broken thru and then into rock and or the seems and talic you are talking about. I do not know but I do think I know that you have coal mined basically all of you life. So the saying that gold is where you find it is not always true! As for the mine that had info on it dealing with Caleb, again it was not sitting right with the gold mine but just guessing right now and with out a map out in front of me I will say it was something like 1/2 a mile away and this is certainly a rough guess. This is on some of the info if a guy is reading but I doubt that to many people have put it all together. I think the Utes would know this. Gale Rhoads undoubtable knew it as he was the one writting and I know that he had located the mine. The Utes also know this. Lost Lost I worked the coal mine (Deer Creek Up Huntington Canyon) longer than any job I have ever had. With exception of farming. Then my 8 years in the USMC. These are the best jobs I have had. The one that payed the most was coal mining. As for as gold in coal here is what I think happened. As the core drilling was nearing the coal seam they might have hit a small pocket of gold then into the coal seam and it all came up together
Argenta	Gold and Carbon	#86	[-]
Posts: 97 (04/30/09 08:57 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Kidneys of pyrite occur in coal beds. Coal of a higher sulphur content occur also. What info. I have is that gold has been found to associate with the pyrite. Sometimes there are coal deposits in the near vicinity of gold deposits as is there also tungsten deposits and sometimes uranium deposits. Gold has a affinity for alkali rocks and carbon. How sulphur and iron form in coal beds, is a mystery to me. Why are fossils found in coal beds, made up of iron pyrites as replacement for the bone mass? This planet has many mysteries we'll never know. But if you happen upon a coal seam, you might want to look around the area for precious metals, as they do occur where you might not think to look. I'm not here to convince or confuse anyone. Gold occurs in more than just quartz and black shales. "Carbonaceous shales, phosphatic shales, and many similar marine sediments contain minor amounts of uranium, vanadium, silver, arsenic, gold, molybdenum, and other metallic elements... These elements are concentrated by chemical precipitation in the reducing enviroment created by rotting organic sediments; by adsorption on clay particles, colloidal gels, and organic debris; and by organic processes such as bacterial action." ( Krauskopf, 1955, 1956; Mercer, 1976.) As the weather improves, happy hunting everyone!
Lostaslost	Coal,Shales,Sulphur and Gold!	#87	[-]
Posts: 164 (05/01/09 09:43 AM) Weekend exporer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Argenta I will have to fully agree with you own your assesments of the shales and what can assay with them. I have a couple of assays that was taken with one being grey shale and another being red shale. George Thompson also shows a assay that was placed in his book that ran very similar to my assays. I have talked about the gold mine that is very near a coal mine. Then to I found a sulpur mine that is located not to far in distance from an old Spanish gold mine. A individual took and found this mine and he started mining it himself profitabley. This was years ago. He also mined the sulphur. He would mine anything for money. There is also another gold mine in the very near area that had good gold in it and it was abandoned due to the fact that the mine kept falling in. This individual actually located the vein structure and started mining it himself. During the winter he was a coal miner and then in the summer he would head up into the Uintas to work his mines there. I have not been able to locate that mine but the individual that told me about it is for real. I know for a fact that the story is true. I just have not looked to auwful hard for the mine and it is not a priority of mine. Why would I want to find a mine that kept falling in on a experienced miner? Then to in the general area there is a silver mine and or several. I had ran into a sheephearder maybe 10 years ago and he told me about it. He said he could still remember when he was a kid he would go to the mine and visit with the old miner. He said there was 3 mines in that area. He just waved his arm over in that area back in those peaks. Boy that was a great help you know. This sheephearder who was on a horse may have been 70 years old. I have high hopes of finding at least one of these mines this year. I am thinking that the old miner would have only carried out the very best of the silver and there would be plenty left in the tailings and or even in the mine. Just me and my thinking as he definitly did not have a road that ran up to the mine. This is clear for sure. He had to have packed it out on a horse and or mule. It would be the same today. I would have to carry it out on my back. I will take a metal detector and hope for the best if I ever do locate the silver mines. It would be fun and no there would not be any way that it could be profitable unless a guy could actually find some form of good specimen silver. Then he may have something. Lost
Argenta		#88	[-]
Posts: 98 (05/01/09 10:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	If your looking for silver, don't ignore chalcedony, as it is often a host rock for silver, and can occur in or near silver deposits. With silver, the rule of thumb is the larger the cubes of galena, the higher the lead content, and the smaller the cubes, the higher the silver content. The black and heavy and soft fragments you may come across, are great specimens, as are the purple stained in quartz from the oxidation of the silver contained within the rock. Silver specimens are more valuable as specimens than for their metal content, thanks in part to the type of mining done today with heavy equipment. If your lucky enough to find the waxy brown "horn silver", which may also be a grey color with greenish lustre specks, or even native silver, you'll be wise to not sell it for metal value, but for specimen value for it's highly prized! Good specimens are worth more than gold! Happy hunting!

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