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Almost all of Earth’s gold is hundreds of feet below the surface. But some of it is oozing from the core into the mantle.
This week, see how gold is leaking from the planet’s core, watch sharks sharing a communal meal, unearth Egyptian tombs, and ...
An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The ...
A study reveals that gold and precious metals from Earth's core may be seeping into the mantle and reaching the surface ...
“When the first results came in, we realized that we had literally struck gold,” Nils Messling, a geochemist at Göttingen ...
As meteorites bombarded one another in Earth’s early history, a reservoir of these precious metals developed when the core formed about 4.5 billion years ago.But this study suggests that at ...
Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden ...
Electric currents created in the fluid metal outer core that produce Earth's magnetic field. Credit: Andrew Z. Colvin / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Yet the magnetic field holds mysteries we ...
lending support to the theory that the noble gas is leaking from Earth’s core — and has been for millennia. The research team also detected helium-4 within the rocks. While helium-4 is common ...