Steam bubbles carry gold and sulfur up from Earth’s depths
Mechanism explains how metals rise in magma
![Droplets](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ts_hitchhiking_metals.png?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
BUBBLING UP Tiny droplets (white semicircles) from a dense mixture of sulfur and metal (glob at bottom) can float upward in magma reservoirs on the undersides of steam bubbles (black circle), new research suggests.
J.E. Mungall et al.