Earth's Core Is Leaking Gold, and Scientists Just Proved It

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Hawaiian volcanic rock reveals Earth's hidden gold can escape from deep underground

99.999 Percent of Earth's Gold Is Somewhere You Will Never Reach

The Core Was Assumed to Be Permanently Sealed Off

Researchers Found the Proof Hiding in Hawaiian Lava

The Evidence Was a Needle in a Planet Sized Haystack

The Core and Mantle Genuinely Should Not Mix

The Isotope Signature Works Like a Chemical Fingerprint

The Scale Involved Is Almost Incomprehensible

Humans Could Never Drill Deep Enough to Reach It Directly

This Leak May Have Been Running for Half a Billion Years

The Leak Is Not Happening Everywhere Equally

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Somewhere under three thousand kilometers of solid rock sits nearly all the gold this planet has ever had. For decades, geologists assumed it was sealed in forever. A new study just proved that wrong, and the evidence came from an unlikely source: ordinary looking volcanic rock from Hawaii.
 

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