Science
‘Bonanza’ gold veins in rocks finally explained – Livescience.com
Gold veins thicker than your arm finally get a geological explanation.
Why did some gold
prospectors strike it rich with a bonanza gold vein, while others came up empty-handed? The credit may go to nanoparticles.
New research reveals that high-grade veins of gold contain clusters of gold nanoparticles, which is important because it explains how these impossibly rich aggregations of gold can form in fractures below the earth
. Laboratory experiments have long found that it’s impossible to dissolve enough gold in hydrothermal fluids to ultimately crystallize out to…
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