Goldfinder: scientists discover why we can find gold at all

(Goldschmidt Conference) Why are gold deposits found at all? Gold is famously unreactive, and there seems to be little reason why gold should be concentrated, rather than uniformly scattered throughout the Earth's crust. Now an international group of geochemists have discovered why gold is concentrated alongside arsenic, explaining the formation of most gold deposits

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 4, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news