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A new study of Hawaiian volcanic rocks reveals that the Earth’s core contains vast hidden reserves precious metal ruténio, which was trapped in the Earth’s core along with gold and other precious metals when our planet formed, 4.5 billion years ago.
As Largest Gold Reserves From the land are not stored in Fort Knox, the United States Debour Deposit. In fact, much more are hidden deeply not only what you could expect.
More than 99.999% of reserves of gold and other precious metals of the earth are buried Under 3,000 km of solid rocklocked within the metal nucleus of the earth and far beyond the reach of humanity, explains the.
In a new study, researchers at the University of Göttingen have now found traces of the Precious metal ruténio (RU) In volcanic rocks on the islands of Hawaii – whose origin is ultimately the nucleus of the earth.
The findings were presented in a published last week in the journal Nature.
Compared to the rocky cloak of the earth, the metallic nucleus contains a slightly larger abundance of a particular isotope of Ru: ¹⁰⁰Re.
This abundance is due to the fact that part of the UK, which was arrested in the nucleus of the earth along with gold and other precious metals when it was formed 4.5 billion years ago, having coming from a source different from the scarce amount of ri which is contained in the cloak today. These differences in ¹⁰⁰Ri are so small that it was impossible to detect them in the past.
Now new procedures developed by the University of Göttingen researchers make it possible to identify them. The unusual signal of ¹⁰⁰Ru who found in lava on the surface of the earth can only mean that these rocks originated, ultimately, from the core-manti border.
“When the first results arrived, we realized that we had literally found gold. Our data confirmed that core material, including gold and other precious metals, is infiltrating the cloak of the earth above“, Explains the geochemical Nils Messlingresearcher at the University of Göttingen and first author of the study.
“Our findings not only show that the earth’s core is not as isolated as it was previously presumed,” he says in his turn Matthias Willboldalso geochemical of U.Göttingen and co -author of the study.
“Now we can also prove that huge volumes of overheated cloak material – several hundreds of quadrilions of metric tons Rock-originate on the core-main border and rise to the earth’s surface to form oceanic islands like Hawaii, ”adds the researcher.
This means that at least some of the precarious supplies of gold and other precious metals we depend on their value and importance in so many sectors, as renewable energiesthey may have come from the nucleus of the earth.
“If these processes we observed today have also operated in the past, it is yet to prove. Our discoveries open an entirely new perspective About the evolution of the internal dynamics of our home planet, ”concludes Messling.
