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Unlock the secrets of successful gold prospecting with our shorts on "Sampling the Pay Zone – Where the Gold Concentrates"! In just 45 seconds, discover how to identify ore shoots by recognizing key features like zone transitions and shoot geometry. Learn to sample crucial areas such as the hanging wall and footwall, and master the art of detecting mineralogical clues that lead to gold. This quick guide is essential for every prospector looking to maximize their findings.

Module 4: Sampling the Pay Zone – Where the Gold Concentrates

Title:
Sampling the Pay Zone – How to Find the Gold Inside an Ore Shoot

Description:
Now that you’ve found the clues—bulging veins, breccia textures, limonite halos—it’s time to sample. In this fourth module of Ore Shoots and Gold 101, we show you how to correctly sample a suspected ore shoot, where to test across structural boundaries, and what signs mark the exact zone where the gold concentrates.

Ore shoots aren’t spread-out. They’re tight, vertical or pipe-like features, and missing the right sampling point can mean walking away from a high-grade zone without knowing it.

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🎯 Why Sampling Strategy Matters

Ore shoots often measure:
• Only a few feet wide
• But extend dozens to hundreds of feet vertically
• With gold concentrated in a specific chemical or physical trap

They’re often flanked by barren quartz or low-grade halo rock. That’s why your sampling technique must be precise.

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🔍 Where to Sample – The Transition Zones

Gold tends to concentrate not in the clean center of the vein, but in the margin—where structure or chemistry changes. Focus your testing at:
• The footwall contact (bottom boundary of the vein)
• The hanging wall (top or side boundary, often altered)
• Silica-cemented breccia zones near vein pinches or blowouts
• Limonite-rich or manganese-stained gouge at the edge of quartz

These contact zones often show fracturing, hardness shifts, or color zoning—signs of hydrothermal fluid mixing and gold precipitation.

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⚒️ How to Sample the Ore Shoot
1. Channel Sampling Across Strike
Cut a line through the vein from wall to wall. Sample evenly across the contact zone and record each section. Shoots often show peak grade at or near the outer margin.
2. Vertical Testing
Ore shoots are rarely flat. Dig or drill along the projected plunge of the shoot. If the surface shows promise, the richest values might sit just below your current depth.
3. Test Multiple Microzones
Inside a suspected shoot, test:
• Oxidized quartz
• Rust-stained breccia
• Bleached clay-filled fault gouge
• Sulfide boxwork
These zones reflect different fluid events and metal concentrations. One may carry significantly higher values than the rest.

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🧠 The Gold Is in the Change

You’ll hear this theme over and over in this class: ore shoots form where something changed.

If your sample crosses:
• A pinch-out
• A vein jog
• A fault intersection
• Or a change from brittle to soft rock

…you’re doing it right.

The worst mistake is only testing the center of a “good-looking” vein. Ore shoots aren’t about looks—they’re about structural and geochemical change. Sample accordingly.

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🛰️ Use AI Gold Maps to Guide Trenches

If your shoot follows a known fault or intersects another zone, that geometry can be plotted. Our AI Gold Maps let you:
• Trace fault trends across elevation
• See historic high-grade hits
• Target structural intersections and alteration halos

With that insight, you can place your test pits or sampling trenches exactly where geometry says a shoot should form.

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🧪 What If Results Are Mixed?

If one sample comes back strong and the next is weak—it may be a sign you’ve hit the edge of the shoot. Follow the stronger result along strike or dip. Shoots are tight and directional. Keep testing systematically to define the zone.

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📥 Final Tip

Don’t guess. Sample with intent. And always test the transition zones—because gold doesn’t care what looks good. It concentrates where the rock broke, shifted, or reacted.

📥 Download the Module 4 takeaway PDF for a step-by-step field sampling guide.

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