FIRST DAY IN STYLE WITH MR. UGUR KIZILTEPE

 

Three well-rounded floats of massive galena were discovered in less than one hour in a stream below the Siyle mine. Covered by a thin layer of moss, they could not be distinguished from barren boulders. All three were found within 30 meters below the path leading to the adit. They illustrate the need to give bonus only for floats which are sampled and actually assayed, as here we took time to sample only one of the three. Yet, even if one can usually estimate the base metal content of floats the gold cannot be evaluated by eye. Floats are random samples from an ore body, and differ in gold content. Assaying should be systematic until several dozens of floats from a limited area have been assayed.