The dazzling story of gold.
New research offers a theory on how gold, platinum, and other precious metals found their way into Earth’s mantle. Scientists at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute (SRI) say they’ve hit the jackpot with some valuable new information about the story of gold. It’s a…Read More
3D scans will uncover the secrets of Iron Age gold treasure.
Object from the gold treasure from Vindelev, which spent some time at DTU in an attempt to better understand its origin and importance. Photographers and journalists from the BBC, TV 2, and DR were ready when an armored car drove up to the front of…Read More
Striking rare gold.
Researchers unveil new material infused with gold in an exotic chemical state by Stanford University. Structure of the gold-halide perovskite is the elongated gold-chloride octahedra, composed of gold (Au) surrounded by six neighboring chlorine (Cl) atoms, are shaded in the structure: burnt-red octahedra represent Au2+-chloride…Read More
An archaeological find on an island in southern Norway is dubbed the gold find of the century.
A Norwegian man needed a hobby. His new metal detector found a showy 1,500-year-old gold necklace. Norway, Thursday Sept. 7, 2023. Bore found nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls on a southern island in what was described as the gold find of the…Read More
A New Rush to Find Gold in the Sierra Nevada Foothills.
Pummeling storms over the winter, along with copious spring snowmelt, have created optimal conditions for gold to emerge. In their lust for riches, the miners of the gold rush moved a gargantuan amount of dirt. A prominent geologist, Grove Karl Gilbert, calculated in the early…Read More