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It's not because we work from home that we are not productive! The third article of a series dealing with the application of our automated mineralogy techniques to drift prospecting is published and available for downloading. This third paper discuss the meaning of gold grain size and shape distribution in glacial sediments and how this can be useful in optimizing your gold exploration program. The study brings new lights on various myths, demonstrating that small and large grains are not dispersed differently that wearing of grains is dependent on their size and not only on transport distance and that initial shapes of the grains reflect the metallogenic environment of their source. A surprising observation is that grain size distribution is consistent among various surveys, and consequently among deposits. So, grain size distribution can be use to assess quality of sampling or of sample processing at the laboratory. Of course, this requires accurate size measurement, such as those obtained from our ARTGold technology. Since these measurements are provided along with grain counts, why not using them to better target your next exploration program?

The paper, authored by our team is now available for downloading (paste the link to your browser) from "Minerals" peer-reviewed journal at the following link, and will be included in a special edition on "The Application of Automated SEM-Based Identification of Detrital, Diagenetic and Indicator Mineral Phases"

Download at: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/4/379/pdf

''There are those who follow the rules... and those who define them''

Gold grain size distribution among various types of glacial sediments from the Canadian Shield. Similarities of the size distribution between the various types of sediments indicates that small and large grains are not dispersed differently in the sediments, except for high energy medium such as eskers.