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Witwatersrand and the River of Goldby *JP-Talma

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Fractal thingy 606

Witwatersrand is a sedimentary rock set in South Africa that it quite special. It is a set of ancient rivers that eroded the nearby mountains. These mountains were full of gold and uranium. Normal sedimentary rocks don't often hold urainium though because urainium in the presence of oxygen becomes a water soluble form, so it doesn't get preserved. But because these rocks formed in the Archean (more than 2.5 billion years ago) when there was not much oxygen around.

Either way, the combination of a great sedimentary basin, during a time when it was possible to form and be preserved for billions of years has made it a world class gold and urainium mine producing 40% of the gold ever mined.

The shape of this fractal reminded me of a river delta with all it's branching arms. So another splits eliptical fractal, but I fell I am closer to learning how they work.

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~Dragantia Sep 18, 2012

Stunning! and very interesting to learn about the Witwatersrand too, I'm from South Africa and I didnt know that

*JP-Talma Sep 23, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

South Africa always seemed to be the place of interest for my third year mining class. Full of chromium, gold, platinum and diamonds (who could forget that!). A very special region geologically

And I'm glad you like the fractal

~Dragantia Sep 25, 2012

lol, its my pleasure, its a very pretty fractal. And Im glad SA has such a mining fan club

~MortemXIII Sep 17, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Great details coupled with excellent colour choice.

*JP-Talma Sep 23, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks very much

*GraphicLia Sep 16, 2012

Excellent! Love the geology lesson too. "Earth Science" did not get nearly enough coverage in public school - it's fascinating.

*JP-Talma Sep 23, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I know! In grade 9 and 10 science we had a chapter for earth sciences (one on weather and another on space) and both times they cancel,Ed it because the fogured that biology, physics and chemistry were more important. So all I got was geography, which really is not the same

Its a shame since these are such interesting aspects of science. That's what university is for I guess..l.

*GraphicLia Sep 23, 2012

Have you checked out Coursera, a free online university cooperative? [link]

I stumbled across it last week, so ofc 2 of the courses I am excited about are already in session but more are going to be starting next month.

*JP-Talma Sep 24, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I don't think I could find the time for that

Some of them look like they could be fun.... But when I consider that my work week means waking up at 5am and getting home at 6pm Monday to Friday.... And working on some Saturdays too... I don't think I have 8-10hours a week to do course work too, lol.

I think I'll hold off on doing more course work until I'm ready to do my masters

*Dawgit Sep 16, 2012

Awesome work

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