Jacqueline Gerson knows very well how “artisanal gold mining” sounds to people who haven’t heard the phrase before.
“I think of it like the Wild West days in the United States,” said Gerson, the assistant professor of Earth and environmental Continue reading
Painting fingernails with silver and gold by American Chemical Society.
Using metal nanoparticles in clear nail polish makes it durable and colorful without extra additives.
Since ancient times, people have used lustrous silver, platinum and gold to make jewelry and Continue reading
Appearing on the cover of American Vogue and favoured by Alisters from Kendall Jenner to Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley, New York Citybased Brazilian designer **Ana Khouri**’s collections are created exclusively with fairmined 18carat gold and platinum, traceable diamonds and gemstones from Zambia. Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
New observations confirm that colliding neutron stars produce short gamma-ray bursts. Such collisions produce rare heavy elements, including gold.
All Earth’s gold likely came from colliding neutron stars. We value gold for many reasons: its beauty, its usefulness as jewelry, Continue reading
EPFL scientists have created 18-karat gold that’s harder than tempered steel and virtually unscratchable.
By combining a gold alloy with boron carbide, an extremely hard ceramic that’s used in bulletproof vests, a team of EPFL researchers has succeeded Continue reading