Gallery

“A picture is worth a thousand words”

A cliché, but true. The images presented tell many stories about the nature of the geology, why a trap site occurs where it does and the relationships between elements.

Brett

Selwyn Mountains, Yukon

Deformation, failure and fluids

Sinter

Scallop structure

Breccia chimney, Drake Volcanics, Northern NSW

Top of pipe environment

Historical workings, Martha LS gold system, New Zealand

Difficult access and outcrop

Vein parallel shear

Post vein displacement and new vein formation

Muruntau pit, view to SE

Martha vein with splays, view to S

High in an orogen

Hi-aspect ratio breccia: fluid induced in foliated host

Sealed shear and buckled veins

Roof thrust mylonite, altered, Muruntau pit

Extreme transposition of veins in a shear

Bjorkdal veins nucleate on hangingwall shear and propagate into host

Mylonite in limestone: it does happen

Non-coaxial folding in Au mineralised BIF at amphibolite grade