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 →

The simulated Milky Way-like galaxy at present taken from the simulation produced in the study.
A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame and Tohoku University have revealed the birthplace of so-called “gold-rich” stars-stars with an abundance of Continue reading →

Study shows new chloride-based process recovers 84% of gold compared to the 64% recovered with traditional methods.

Gold is one of the world’s most popular metals. Malleable, conductive and non-corrosive, it’s used in jewelry, electronics, and even space exploration. But Continue reading →

The inscription ‘He is Odin’s man’ is seen in a round half circle over the head of a figure on a golden bracteate unearthed in Vindelev, Denmark in late 2020. Scientists have identified the oldest-known reference to the Norse god Continue reading →