Pyrite or....... Invisible Gold??????Did anyone who looked at...

Pyrite or....... Invisible Gold??????

Did anyone who looked at todays announcement look at the picture in on the photo provided by APOLLO today? I suggest you should! and it reads below the picture:

" right – altered RC chips containing coarse disseminated pyrite in RCLR170."

Did you zoom and have a good look at it?? Thats some pretty thick mineralisation of Pyrite! very thick actually.

Now going on :

Previous results 42m @ 7.75g/t Au
Evidence of sighting visable Gold
Very thick pyrite

For those don't know and I didn't either until I just did some research, pyrite is frequently associated with many primary gold deposits. Its only early days yet, but some of the biggiest gold mines of the world recover gold in the process of extracting Au within pyrite e.g, Sunrise Dam to the north of Bambora, on the Laverton Techtonic Zone....the same zone AOP are in.

And if you look up the Geology of the other Gold mines on the Laverton tectonic plate you will find they all extract gold mainly from Pyrite!

Read Below

The Sunrise Dam gold mine (11.1 Moz Au) is the largest deposit in the Archaean Laverton Greenstone Belt (Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia). The deposit is characterized by multiple events of fluid flow leading to repeated alteration and mineralization next to a major crustal-scale structure. The Au content of arsenian pyrite and arsenopyrite from four mineralizing stages (D1, D3, D4a, and D4b) and from different structural and lithostratigraphic environments was measured using in situ laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Pyrite contains up to 3,067 ppm Au (n=224), whereas arsenopyrite contains up to 5,767 ppm (n=19). Gold in arsenopyrite (D4a stage) was coprecipitated and remained as "invisibe gold" (nanoparticles and/or latticebound) during subsequent deformation events. In contrast, gold in pyrite is present not only as "invisible gold" but also as micrometer-size inclusions of native gold, electrum, and Au(Ag)¨Ctellurides. Pristine D1 and D3 arsenian pyrite contains relatively low Au concentrations (¡Ü26 ppm). The highest Au concentrations occur in D4a arsenian-rich pyrite that has recrystallized from D3 pyrite.


very good results today, even better if that Pyrite is Arsenopyrite!!

Good Results today no matter!! How you have digested them is another thing!!

DYOR.... I have! I just thought I would share it ))

Also checkout: http://www.ga.gov.au/image_cache/GA5415.pdf