Bonanza Grade Gold in Quartz Ore - Visible Gold! | Pamour #1 Mine | Timmins District | Canada | 8K

Описание: This 8K macro showcases a classic Archean gold ore specimen from the Pamour #1 Mine in the Cochrane District of Ontario, Canada. Filmed on a Panasonic S1RII, the video glides across a chunky block of milky quartz hosting streaks and patches of arsenopyrite and pyrite, with bright yellow flecks of visible gold. Slow, steady close-ups let you pause and study every metallic grain in ultra-high resolution.

Pamour is part of the historic Timmins–Porcupine camp, one of the most productive gold fields in North America and a key center of the Porcupine Gold Rush, which has yielded on the order of 60–70 million ounces of gold from multiple mines. The Pamour operations, discovered in the early 1900s just east of Timmins, have themselves produced roughly 4–5.5 million ounces of gold from underground and open-pit workings, making them a major contributor to the district’s output. Specimen recovery programs at Pamour #1 during the 1980s even targeted rich pockets of gold-bearing quartz like the piece you see here.

Geologically, Pamour sits in the Archean Abitibi greenstone belt, where gold is hosted in quartz–carbonate veins and altered shear zones cutting mafic volcanics and sediments. The ore is dominated by arsenopyrite and pyrite, with much of the gold occurring as “invisible” inclusions in these sulfides and as free gold in late fractures. Fluid-inclusion and structural studies show that high-grade shoots formed where compressional shears focused hydrothermal fluids and repeatedly opened, filled, and re-opened quartz veins—exactly the kind of crack-seal textures hinted at in this specimen.

This particular piece measures 7.3 × 6.0 × 2.2 cm and weighs 116 grams. One face shows a zone of fine arsenopyrite and pyrite disseminated through quartz, cut by little fractures and seams where specks of native gold are visible even to the naked eye. Under 8K macro, the contrast between the pale quartz, brassy pyrite, steely arsenopyrite, and warm yellow gold makes this an excellent teaching piece for classic Timmins-style Archean lode gold.

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