Good morning friend,
You had written, "A couple weeks ago I was surfing the net looking for instances of gold at surface withing quartz veins.... I came across one older NR out of BC that had gold at surface, but not much below... so there is always this risk
The good news is I found way more links of various NR's and articles where the gold had continued deeper".
Shows you what I know about structures or patterns. [zippo] I just can't understand how you could take a birds eye view and look down on a criss-cross web of gold bearing veins and there not be a source. Unless there was a dike situation, where an upheval of the plates turned the 'find' in another direction and placed it meters or miles away. IMO, these veins that are in the GB area must have a source someplace even if it is never found. Longbomb, note I said IMO. LOL.
Jerry