Unlock the secrets of structural geology in just 45 seconds! 🎬 In this quick guide, we dive into the crucial differences between “strike” and “dip”—two key terms that influence gold movement and concentration. Learn how gold can travel both horizontally and vertically, shaping its mining prospects. Discover why the interaction between strike and dip zones is vital for successful prospecting, and get practical tips to boost your gold-finding skills. Module 1: Strike vs Dip – What’s the Difference in Gold Zones?
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Strike vs Dip – How Gold Moves Through Veins and Fault Zones
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If you’re prospecting veins or faults, one structural concept changes everything: strike vs dip. In this first module of Strike vs Dip Zone Gold 101, we explain the difference, why both matter, and how they guide the movement—and concentration—of gold underground.
Whether you’re walking a quartz vein, trenching a breccia pipe, or mapping fault gouge, knowing how to trace strike and follow dip gives you the tools to find the richest zones.
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🪨 What Is Strike?
Strike is the horizontal direction a vein or fault travels across the surface.
• Think of it like a line on a map.
• When you walk a gold-bearing vein across a hillside, you’re walking along the strike.
• Gold often follows strike, especially in shears and vein corridors.
But surface strike alone rarely tells the full story. That’s where dip comes in.
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⛏️ What Is Dip?
Dip is the angle the structure plunges into the earth.
• It tells you where that vein or fault goes underground.
• Some dip shallow (10–30°), others dip steep (70–90°).
• Gold can migrate down-dip to form deeper ore shoots and plunge zones.
In many cases, the highest grades form not along strike—but where the dip zone intersects a structural change.
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🌋 Why Gold Follows Both
Gold moves in hydrothermal fluids, flowing through fault planes, fractures, and open vein systems. These fluids:
• Travel laterally along strike
• Drop vertically into open fractures along dip
• Precipitate where pressure or chemistry shifts
That’s why understanding both directions matters. Shoots can:
• Extend along strike for dozens of feet
• Plunge vertically into tight zones
Knowing both dimensions lets you test veins the right way.
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🔍 How to Use Strike and Dip in the Field
Strike tells you how to:
• Follow a vein across the hillside
• Line up historic workings
• Align sampling trenches or pits
Dip tells you:
• Where to trench deeper
• Where to drill or break at depth
• How gold might plunge beneath barren zones
Example: A narrow quartz vein may look low-grade at surface—but 6 feet down-dip, it hits a blowout with breccia and sulfides. That’s the shoot.
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⚒️ Sampling Tips
To prospect both strike and dip:
• Walk the strike zone for color, quartz swelling, and alteration
• Test along the dip by trenching at natural exposures
• Use structure to guide test pits—fault bends, pinch-outs, jogs
• If values spike in one dip test, keep going downward
Gold hides in angles. You just need to read the slope and the trend.
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🛰️ Map It Before You Dig
With our AI Gold Maps, you can overlay fault trends, vein strikes, and dip zones to target areas most likely to hold shoots.
• Identify strike-aligned mineral belts
• Spot dip intersections with alteration zones
• Use elevation and slope to plan smart sampling
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🎓 Takeaway
Strike is the direction.
Dip is the depth.
Gold rides both—but shoots form where the structure shifts.
📥 Download the Strike vs Dip PDF guide and use it in the field to read the rock smarter, dig more efficiently, and chase the gold where it’s actually flowing.
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