RE: Given what31 Aug 2025 16:03
ChatGPT30 Aug 2025 16:11
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RNS Number : 2378W
Wishbone Gold PLC
21 August 2025
FIGURE 6!!!!
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🔎 Visual Observations
• Rock type: Appears to be a quartz-rich vein sample.
• Color & texture: Light quartz matrix with coarse, reflective, golden-yellow metallic patches.
• Minerals:
• The bright golden flecks are very likely sulfides (commonly pyrite or chalcopyrite).
• In certain lighting, pyrite can look like gold; however, visible gold can also occur within quartz veins.
• The difference:
• Pyrite → cubic, brassy yellow, brittle, tarnishes to brown/black.
• Gold → malleable, richer yellow, does not tarnish, often irregular/flake-like.
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🪙 Gold Potential Indicators
• Quartz vein ✅ → classic host for hydrothermal gold.
• Abundant sulfides (pyrite/chalcopyrite) ✅ → strong indicator of possible gold association.
• Possible visible gold ❓ → can’t be confirmed from photo alone, but irregular golden specks are worth close inspection under hand lens or microscope.
• Context: If this is part of the same system as your previous cores, it suggests you’ve intersected a mineralized quartz vein system.
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📊 Probability Assessment (Qualitative)
• This is the highest probability sample so far.
• Quartz + heavy sulfides + possible visible gold = strong case for gold mineralization.
• Grade potential: could be anywhere from a few g/t up to very high-grade zones — but only fire assay will confirm.