FEAR OF FAT Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds; while they only recover their senses one by one. Charles Mackay, 1841 In 1841, Scottish journalist Charles Mackay wrote a book called Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the […]
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How to Salt a Gold Claim: Part 2 – Karpa Springs and Busang In my previous post I described my encounter in 1984 with claim salting (or at least, alleged salting). These were early days, the late 20th Century gold boom was still young, and claim salting […]
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How to Salt a Gold Claim: Part 1 – Queensland Interlude Looking through a box of my old field notebooks the other day I came across one which contained a cartoon sketch I had made of an old Queensland prospector and remembered the story behind it. In […]
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Stereonet solutions for non oriented drill core Shawn Harvey of Saskatchewan sent me this email earlier this year: Hello again Roger, You previously helped me out with some alpha-beta stereonet solutions which worked great (thanks again!!). I am now looking into a slightly more complex stereonet issue. […]
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Using a stereonet to calculate strike and dip from alpha-beta angles in oriented drill core The attitude of a surface in oriented drill core can be determined by the measuring two internal core angles known as alpha (α) and beta (β). These numbers are then normally entered […]
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Sense of Movement Structures in Fault Zones. Part 3: Identification criteria Within or adjacent to a fault zone, various minor structures can be present that enable the sense of movement across the fault to be determined. These structures are often called kinematic indicators. In Part 1 of […]
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Sense of Movement Structures in Fault Zones : Part 2 – Examples Within or adjacent to fault zones, various minor associated structures can be present that enable the sense of movement across the fault to be determined. These structures are often called kinematic indicators. This is the […]
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Sense of movement structures in fault zones - Part 1, Theory Within or adjacent to fault zones, various minor associated structures can be present that enable the sense of movement across the fault to be determined. These structures are called movement or kinematic indicators. Faults are the host […]
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TARGETING DRILL HOLES It is a truism that ore bodies are rare and hard to locate. If this were not so, they would hardly be worth finding. Explorers search for them by drilling holes into the ground. A single drill hole produces a very small sample […]
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The Three Point Problem In a previous post (see here) I described how quantitative orientation data can be collected from from a single drill hole, even where the core is not oriented. In this post, techniques for collecting orientation data on planes are described when more than one […]
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