Supergene gold mobility in orogenic gold deposits
have also affected many placer gold deposits to varying extents Craw & Youngson 1993; Youngson & Craw 1993; Falconer & Craw 2009; Reith et al 2012 Historically miners in Otago orogenic deposits abandoned their mines when they pene trated down to sulphide bearing ore from which they could not economically extract gold As a consequence
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The gold can be both in free gold and gold compounds to refractory ores resistant to a leaching process Quartz veins which produce gold the gold is normally more free gold than gold compounds these same veins can hold other metals also Iron compounds being normally the greatest but many other metal compounds can also be involved