Roger,
I've done quite a bit of research in SA, NSW, Victoria & Queensland on old
gold and base metal deposits over the years in the course of exploration
work. It's not a term I've run into anywhere to date.
Cheers
Ian H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Baden Bradford" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: GRENADA ROCK
> Hi Ian and Listers.
> Many thanks for your reply, I have the book as mentioned, and am familiar
> with the Lady Alice Section in it.
> For you see, I have transcribed, over the last year or two, all the
> newspaper art's I can find on the Lady Alice and Humbug Scrub group mines,
> it comes to some 200 pages.
> I was working on the theory that Grenada rock may be a nick-name
particular
> to gold mining, such as Mullock in gold mining and Attle in Copper mining,
a
> sort of trade/miners name?
> I am greatfull for your imput,Again thankyou.
> Take Care.
> Roger B Bradford, Of Elizabeth, South Australia
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Hodkinson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Monday, December 06, 2004 12:13 PM
> Subject: Re: GRENADA ROCK
>
>
> >Roger,
> >
> >H.Y.L. Brown's 1908 Record of the Mines of SA says, inter alia, of Lady
> >Alice:
> >
> >"In the neighbourhood the bedrock has a general strike of N and S. It
> >consists of gneissic granite, felspathic schist, quartzose, and micaceous
> >and hornblende schist, yellow felspathic rock with quartz in rounded
> >pieces - probably a decomposed elvan dyke, greenish hornblendic rocks and
> >granite veins indicating the presence of greenstone and granite dykes
> >below... Gneissic granite is the prevailing rock."
> >
> >As for Grenada rock - no mention. Perhaps it's a corruption of granitic
or
> >the like ? It all sounds a bit granitic hereabouts.
> >
> >For Goddard's the same book notes "slaty granite and gneissic rock".
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Ian Hodkinson
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Roger Baden Bradford" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 5:59 AM
> >Subject: GRENADA ROCK
> >
> >
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