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| Exploration trench at Mt. Kare - Trench 51 - excavated by hand |
Geologist mapping and sampling within hand dug exploration trench |
Hand dug exploration trench - typical hillside vegetation cover |
Geologist Tom Kunma inspecting trench excavation |
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| Alteration;distinctive yellow Fe-oxide (after pyrite) and strong bleaching commonly seen in sandstone near intrusive contacts |
Altered, bleached -pyritic -oxidized sandstone breccia |
Altered, bleached, pyritic, oxidized sandstone and breccia - water tank zone (C-9) |
Manganese alteration (wad) - Black Zone. May contain very fine grain gold |
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| Intrusive breccia with altered bleached-pyritic-oxidized sediments - abundant Fe-oxide and black manganese staining |
Mother and son working an alluvial site at Mt. Kare |
Local alluvial miners display extensive excavation |
Local miners in adit, highly altered rock |
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