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RE:QH's theory.

Iskyhigh wrote:

Image is not this, and this is old. So what he thinks now will be interesting to learn.

The first big gold depositional event in the Witwatersrand basin
Quinton Hennigh, Novo Resources Corp, Vancouver, Canada

By about 3.00 Ga, the Kaapvaal craton of southern Africa was sufficiently stable to support deposition of thick sequences of sedimentary and volcanic rocks in shallow basins. One of these, the Witwatersrand Basin, has yielded about 29% of historic global gold production. About half of this gold has been mined from millimetric to centimetric gold-rich carbon seams occurring near the base of the 2.894-2.714 Ga Central Rand Group.

The presence of kerogen and bitumen along with copious observations on the spatial distribution of these carbon seams confirm that this carbon originated in situ from living organisms in microbial mat cover that grew contemporaneously with sediment deposition. Early O2-producing life forms, probably cyanobacteria, that evolved in shallow marine environments were an important component of these microbial mats and were responsible for oxidative precipitation of gold, thus fixing huge amounts of gold over large areas. This event marks the earliest significant deposition of gold in the Witwatersrand Basin and represents the beginning of the crustal gold cycle.

It has been postulated that emission of sulfurous gases from large volcanic eruptions formed acid rain that resulted in chemical weathering and transport of gold as sulfur complexes in anoxic surface waters that flowed into basins where gold precipitated onto microbial mats. While this idea is intriguing, it requires extensive chemical weathering of huge tracts of ancient terrestrial terrane in order to source sufficient gold to form the vast gold deposits of the Witwatersrand Basin. Alternatively, seawater, under similar atmospheric conditions, would have proved highly effective at leaching gold from oceanic crust underlying Earth’s ancient ocean basins, thus making it a more probable source of gold.

Tidal inflows of seawater repeatedly washed across microbial mats living in broad estuaries, thus delivering a near endless supply of gold for cyanobacteria to precipitate. New work indicates this process was not restricted to the Witwatersrand Basin. Economic gold mineralization and associated carbon have recently been discovered in the Archean Fortesque Basin, Australia. Microbial mediated gold depositional processes may have reoccurred later in time in other basins such as the Huronian of the Superior Province (~2.5 Ga) and the Tarkwaian of West Africa (~2.1 Ga).

image: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v8/n3/images/ngeo2347-f1.jpg

Image from Gold buried by Oxygen 2015

I am very glad you added the image for posters trying to understand the potential of this deposit.

The image of the shallow sea is most critical. That shallow sea was likely thousands of square kilometers in size based on the original Vaalbara continental model. And gold in a liquid solution prior to precipitation would be of uniform concentration - being an equal percentage of the liquid composition. And likewise, a precipitation event would result in a uniform deposit onto the sea floor directly below (the reef) over the same vast area.

That's why NVO staked out so much land. And if the theory is proven out, it will be one of the largest gold discoveries in history. Tx

Novo Resources Corp is an exploration stage company. The Company evaluates, acquires, explores, and develops natural resource properties. Its projects include Talga Project, Millenium Property, Blue Spec Project and among others."

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Should be an interesting follow in months ahead as they start drilling to substantiate proven minerals.

Never thought I’d ever see such an exciting Gold Find . We’ll know how Factual in days ahead.