Dale

[Dale Smith]

Hi I'm Dale in New Zealand. On our South Island west coast iron-sands contain flour gold. The best spots are covered by gold claims going back generations. My interest is in the eroding geological formations that contain the iron-sand and gold. In some locations they also contain platinum group elements. Very complex geology where two tectonic plates collide upthrusting all sorts of igneous and sedimentary formations. The PGE are there - just that no one has located a commercial mother lode yet. Laboratory-scale isolation and purification of gold and PGE from complex mixtures is a challenge. I've already found some interesting ideas and leads from this forum.

 

[4metals]

Welcome to the forum. New Zealand, I guess qualifies as down under. In my opinion a member from down under (Australia) as well who goes by the handle Deano is the resident expert on gold in it’s natural geologic surroundings. Look up some of his posts and follow him, you won’t regret it.

 

[FrugalRefiner]

Welcome to the forum Dale. Just to keep you in sync with the terminology we use here, we usually refer to the platinum group metals as PGMs instead of PGEs.

Best of luck finding that mother lode.

Dave

 

[Dale Smith]

Welcome to the forum. New Zealand, I guess qualifies as down under. In my opinion a member from down under (Australia) as well who goes by the handle Deano is the resident expert on gold in it’s natural geologic surroundings. Look up some of his posts and follow him, you won’t regret it.

Thanks for the tip. I will look up Deano. New Zealand is downer and more under than Australia. Historically we had two major gold rushes with the cyanide extraction process being invented here to handle the super-fine volcanic origin gold. But now we are unlikely to ever find new gold resources like the Australians have in abundance!

 

[Dale Smith]

Welcome to the forum Dale. Just to keep you in sync with the terminology we use here, we usually refer to the platinum group metals as PGMs instead of PGEs.

Best of luck finding that mother lode.

Dave

Thanks Dave. I've noted that the academic literature now trends towards the use of PGE but I'm happy to use PGM on the forum to keep the search engines happy!

 

[VK3NHL]

Hi I'm Dale in New Zealand. On our South Island west coast iron-sands contain flour gold. The best spots are covered by gold claims going back generations. My interest is in the eroding geological formations that contain the iron-sand and gold. In some locations they also contain platinum group elements. Very complex geology where two tectonic plates collide upthrusting all sorts of igneous and sedimentary formations. The PGE are there - just that no one has located a commercial mother lode yet. Laboratory-scale isolation and purification of gold and PGE from complex mixtures is a challenge. I've already found some interesting ideas and leads from this forum.

Greetings Dale from across the Pond..