A few years since quite a fever of speculation raged in regard to copper mines, and in the pursuit of the mineral gossan, which is supposed to indicate the locality of veins of ores.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Resources of North Carolina: Its Natural Wealth, Condition, and Advantages, as Existing in 1869. Presented to the Capitalists and People of the Central and Northern States] Reference

One grab sample was taken from the gossan and assayed for gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]

Initial work identified 350m of discontinuous strike exposure of the gossan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Xetra Exchanges and has 29,117,900 common shares outstanding.www. gossan.ca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]

Within the vein are pods of silicified gossan mineralized with gold, silver, lead and zinc.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Gold Corporation: Nevada Exploration Update - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

North gossan - recently identified surface gossan co-incident with a +100ppm Cu in soil anomaly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Since 2004, TVI Pacific has been mining the deposit's oxide gossan cap for gold, silver and base metals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mineweb - Daily news headlines] Reference

The thickness of this lode is about ten feet, and the gossan extends to an average depth of forty-five feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference

The number of tonnes processed during the gossan operation increased year-over-year since the start of production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mineweb - Daily news headlines] Reference

The gossan does not often carry much value, though it may show traces of minerals which suggest what may be found below.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

In the extreme eastern portion of Ashe county the gossan ores (brown hematite) of the Ore Knob copper lode, bear mention.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference

At Omilak East, part of which is controlled by a third party, gossan float occurrences extend for over five kilometers along strike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Both factors, the lower grade and recovery with depth, affected gold and silver metal production during the latter stages of the gossan operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mineweb - Daily news headlines] Reference

Samples of the gossan and ferricrete returned only background values, which suggests that the source of the metals in soil may be hidden under talus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Two grab samples were taken from this area and tested for polymetallics, one additional grab sample was taken from the gossan dumps and tested for gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]

Geochemical assays of five samples of rock and gossan outcrop revealed some anomalous values including Zinc values up to 422ppm, Arsenic up to 106ppm and Antimony up to.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In the sampling program three grab samples were taken from the historical pit and tested for polymetallics, two grab samples were taken from the gossan and tested for gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]

This gossan is a showy sulphuret of iron, or iron pyrites, found on the surface after the decomposition and waste of copper veins, and from which no metal can be extracted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Resources of North Carolina: Its Natural Wealth, Condition, and Advantages, as Existing in 1869. Presented to the Capitalists and People of the Central and Northern States] Reference

Geochemical assays of five samples of rock and gossan outcrop revealed some anomalous values including Zinc values up to 422ppm, Arsenic up to 106ppm and Antimony up to 42ppm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Lastly the Angostura prospect was historically mined for copper by both open pit and underground methods, one grab sample was obtained from the gossan dumps and assayed for gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]

Based on these exposures, there appears to be a relationship between the zone of limestone directly above a carbonaceous clay zone and then followed by limonitic/hematite gossan.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The Esperanza prospect was an underground copper mine between 1906 and 1931, one grab sample was obtained from the gossan and one from the waste dumps, and both were assayed for gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]

"iron cap" or "gossan" so often applied to the upper part of the oxide zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

(where MAX sampled gossan mineralization in June that returned an assay of 104 g/t Au) extending the known mineralized zone by 100 meters.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

“So you see, my dear Mrs. Hawkins, having the silver, as your own eyes show you, beside the ores of lead, manganese, and copper, and above all this gossan (as the Cornish call it), which I suspect to be not merely the matrix of the ore, but also the very crude form and materia prima of all metals — you mark me? —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

Drilling is also underway to test a new mineralized gossan known as the Aradaib prospect that was identified by prospecting (to see photo please click on: http://media3. marketwire.com/docs/ngq119c. jpg).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

These iron-stained rocks are variously called the "gossan," the "iron capping," the "colorado," or the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference