Mud Men: Pocket Miners of Southwest OregonPart I
The goldbearing clay seam thus occurs within a plumbing environment that conveys hot, mineralladen solutions outward into the host rocks from intrusive felsic igneous rocks with generally a higher level of quartz such as granite. Usually goldbearing clay seams can be prospected for in the vicinity of established gold mining areas, mineralized zones, known gold veins, shear zones, faults, contacts of