Where the young hot Earth cached its gold
New view offers alternative history of how precious metals sank into the planet’s core
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DEEP DOWN Gold and other related "iron-loving" metals were trapped deep in the planet by ancient chemical reactions involving sulfur, a new study suggests.
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