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Channel Sampling

The document outlines methods and procedures for channel and placer sampling, detailing equipment, sampling techniques, and challenges encountered in the process. It also describes clay minerals, their characteristics, classifications, and significance in various geological and environmental contexts. Key points include the importance of uniform channel sizes in sampling and the role of clay minerals in sedimentary environments.

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Channel Sampling

The document outlines methods and procedures for channel and placer sampling, detailing equipment, sampling techniques, and challenges encountered in the process. It also describes clay minerals, their characteristics, classifications, and significance in various geological and environmental contexts. Key points include the importance of uniform channel sizes in sampling and the role of clay minerals in sedimentary environments.

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Channel Sampling

1 .Application

pits, trenches, mine working, dumps and also placer deposits

2. Method

consist of cutting linear channels, grooves or slots, depth across the surface of the ore body
and collecting the results chips

3. Equipment

Manual (chisel or moil)

Mechanical ( a pneumatic hammer drill , chisel bit or hand- held diamond saw)

4. Procedure

The samples are then cut and collected according to the marked out channels or Grooves.

5. Channel orientation

Channels are oriented according to the inclinnation of ore veins and ore bodies

Channel can be cut horizontally in exceed 45 dip angle

6. Channel size

width and depth of channel depend on the character of mineralization.

7. Channel interval

normally 5ft or 2 m apart

Deposit down to 3ft or 1 m interval

8. Component samples

Each mineral band must be taken as a separate component channel sample.

9. Caution

Channel size should be more or less uniform throughout the sampling programme.
Placer Sampling

1. Common placer deposit

 Gold, platinum, cassiterite, chromite, magnetite and gemstone

2. Sampling methods

 Drilling/ Panning/ sluicing/ test pitting/ augering/ testing old working

3. Sampling equipment

 Pans/ digging tools/ sample bags/ field balance/

4. Stages of sampling

 Reconnaissance
 Detailed or following -up

5. Reconnaissance

 Spot sampling
 Scout sampling

6. Detailed sampling

 Carried out by pitting, shafting, auguring or drilling

7. Procedural Determinants

 Placer geology/ sampling prupose/ mining method

8. Sampling procedures

 Various procedure or methods can be adopted in placer sampling, grab sampling,


channel sampling, pit sampling, drill sampling and bulk sampling.

9. Problems in sampling

 Boulder or large pebbles can cause serious problems


 Lack of water is the most serious problem
Clay Minerals

 Clay minerals belong to the phyllosilicate family of minerals.


 Clay minerals are characterized by their layered structures composed of silica sheets.
 Clay minerals have been widely investigated in various environmental, industuial and
geological setting.
 There are four major groups of clay mineral.
 They are kandite, illite, semmtite and vermiculite.
 It size is <2um to < 4 um.
 Clay minerals are the major constituent of fine- grained sediments and rocks.
 They are important constituent of soils, lake and the ocean sediments.
 Clays form in soil or through weathering principal reflect climate.
 It is redeposition in mudrock.
 Clay assemblages in ocean sediments should not be interpreted in climate alone, has
been done in past.
 Most clay in sediments and sedimentary rocks is reworked from older clay bearing
sediment.
 The iron rich clays form at the Earth’s surface by transformation of pre-existing clays
or from solutio.
 Clays are useful environmental indicators.

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