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1 Diamond formation in the Earth s mantle Most diamonds are found in commercial mines but they were actually formed inside the Earth s mantle about 150 kilometers below the Earth s crust Diamonds are created in something called a diamond stability zone in the upper mantle a high pressure region that has a temperature of over 1 000
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The volume of this gold in purified form would be 10 nanoliters If this refined gold were formed into a solid cube of purified gold the measurement of each side of the cube would be millimeters By comparison the human body contains 43 kilograms of oxygen the most abundant element in the earth as well as the human body Other elements
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Rare heavy metals like silver and gold however need the most extreme stellar environments to form—found only during the explosions of massive stars or supernovae See supernovae pictures
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Scientists have long known that veins of gold are formed by mineral deposition from hot fluids flowing through cracks deep in Earth s crust But a study published today in Nature Geoscience 1
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It is formed by forming compounds with sulfur Due to hot temperature salty water called brine dissolves collects and concentrates silver into the brine Once the brine mixes with cold sea water the metal does not stay dissolved and precipitates on the sea floor as minerals Silver is classified as a transition and precious metal
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Any element can become a gas you just need to heat it past its boiling point For gold that s 2 856 degrees Celsius 5 173 degrees Fahrenheit which is hotter than the temperature in an arc furnace so it s difficult to just boil a bar of gold But you can create small amounts of gold gas by bombarding it with a high energy beam of
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Four and a half billion years ago Earth inherited some of this copper It s thought that gold and silver came to be in massive stars but only as the stars exploded In other words while
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Quartz ••• Gold is most often found in quartz rock When quartz is found in gold bearings areas it is possible that gold will be found as well Quartz may be found as small stones in river beds or in large seams in hillsides The white color of quartz makes it easy to spot in many environments
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While gold silver copper and other base and precious metals are among the most sought after elements together they make up less than % of the Earth s crust by mass #1 Oxygen Oxygen is by far the most abundant element in the Earth s crust making up 46% of mass—coming up just short of half of the Oxygen is a highly reactive element that combines with other elements
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Perform a simple test of the material in the pan to assess whether it is real gold Raw gold appears brassy yellow and bright If you think it is gold place your hand between it and the sun to create shade over the gold If it still appears bright in the pan chances are that it is real gold Fool s gold does not appear as bright when shaded
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Pyrite FeS2 Isoclinic Pyrite s name comes from the Greek pyrites lithos the stone which strikes fire The crystals form in the Isometric System cubes octahedrons pyritohedrons and combinations of these and other forms It also may be found in radiating disks hair like crystals concretions and massive lumps in sulphide ore
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As it s carried downstream the gold bearing rock is broken up into increasingly smaller pieces thereby releasing the gold from the quartz and mineral veins The released gold is itself broken up into smaller and smaller fragments The further it s carried downstream the smaller the gold particles become
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Jan 16 2016Generally speaking Earth has 4 layers The outer crust that we live on The plastic like mantle The liquid outer core The solid inner core A cartoon block of the layers of earth Credit USGS
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Most quartz forms in either igneous rocks or environments with geothermal waters In igneous rocks quartz forms as magma cools Like water turning into ice silicon dioxide will crystallize as it cools Slow cooling generally allows the crystals to grow larger Quartz that grows from silica rich water forms in a similar way
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Earth is in the path of this energy stream which warms the planet drives weather and provides energy for life The Earth s atmosphere is able to screen out most of the harmful radiation and the Earth s magnetic field can deflect the harmful effects of the solar wind Dying stars When a star s core runs out of hydrogen the star begins to die out The dying star expands into a red
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This expansion causes the magma to erupt forcing it to the Earth s surface and taking along with it diamond bearing rocks Moving at an incredible speed the magma takes the path with least resistance forming a pipe to the surface As it cools the magma hardens to form Kimberlite and settles in vertical structures known as kimberlite pipes
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Over the millions of years as the earth formed and cooled down these fluids rich in elements such as gold penetrated the cracks fissures and cavities in the earths crust They are deposited in faults quartz veins Doleritic sills fractures balsaltic rocks in fact the deposits could have intruded into any sort of rock structure
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Gold itself is generally not shiny at least not reflectively It is brilliant and golden but its color does not vary in different light While minerals like pyrite will virtually disappear when you take them out of direct sunlight gold is easily visible whether it is in the sun or not So understand that most of those shiny rocks are not
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The gold that refining companies receive for purification is called dor̕e form of gold A dor̕e bar is basically an alloy of gold and some other metals This is re liquified in a furnace The gold is separated from impurities and other metals when borax and soda ash is added to the mix And this is how pure gold is obtained
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All of the gold formed in the stars sank to the Earth s core Eventually asteroids struck the Earth causing gold to surface to the mantle and crust Had this not happened there wouldn t be any gold readily available for humans You can find gold today in rock ores and on almost all the continents
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Scientists believe all the gold on Earth formed in supernovae and neutron star collisions that occurred before the solar system formed In these events gold formed during the r process Gold sank to the Earth s core during the planet s formation It s only accessible today because of asteroid bombardment
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Even once the gold has been extracted from the earth it s still in its raw form It s still just raw ore that requires processing before it becomes pure gold First the ore is crushed It then undergoes a series of processes that will vary depending on the different elements and minerals that are mixed in with the gold ore The purpose of
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Crystals are formed by the presence of elements in the form of solids liquids and gases These elements are subject to heat which eventually leads to cooling This cooling creates crystals as ordered chemical bonds which can be formed over longer periods of time The slower the cooling process the larger the crystals are
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The deposition of gold on Earth is also debated in the scientific literature As with iron the heavy metals may have sank into the Earth s core A plausible explanation for the presence of gold in the mantle would be a prolonged bombardment of metal rich meteorites This hypothesis is strengthened after measurements with old rocks and is discussed in
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Gold is a soft shiny yellow metal and has been used and highly valued by humans for 4 500 years It is the most malleable and ductile of any element and it can be beaten into a metallic film a few microns thick Gold is also a good conductor of heat and electricity It must be hardened with another metal to make it useful pure gold is too
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A third way gold is formed involves hot springs When hot rocks heat ground water fluids from deep in the earth form in these areas Hot springs with low sulfur fluids offer these kinds of deposits When mountains are pushed up by tectonic plates shoving up against each other fractures are formed in the crust of the Earth
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These deposits are formed by discharge of solutions into the seafloor Porphyry copper deposits A Porphyry Copper Deposit derives its name from a porphyritic stock located at the center of the material deposit A stock results from a cylindrical mass of magma which moves up through the Earth s crust underneath a strato volcano and cools In
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The Earth spins turn or rotate on its own axis once every 24 hours The Earth takes 24 hours to completely rotate on its axis That means one whole day This makes day and night on Earth As Earth turns half of the Earth faces the Sun and the other half faces away On the half of the Earth that is facing the sun is having daytime
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The metal is found in the Earth s crust in the pure free elemental form native silver as an alloy with gold and other metals and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite amu 48 Cd Cadmium Transition metals Cadmium Discoverer Stromeyer Prof Friedrich Element Category Transition metals Cadmium is a chemical element with atomic number 48 which means there
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