You’re probably thinking, ‘Wait a minute, I thought gold was rare!’ Well, you’re right!
Confused? Let me explain.
Most of Earth’s gold is locked up in the mantle, the thick, middle layer of the planet located between the crust and the outer core. Pure gold in the mantle tends to stay there. In other words, the gold is there, but it is inaccessible.
But some of the gold is constantly working its way to the surface where miners can reach it.
This process is something of a mystery, an international team of researchers has used mathematical modeling to reveal the specific conditions that lead to the enrichment of gold-bearing magma. […]
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