Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden much deeper in the ground than one would expect. More than 99.999% of Earth's stores of gold and other precious metals lie buried under 3,000 km of solid rock, locked away within Earth's metallic core and far beyond the reaches of humankind.
Of all the marvelous implications of proof of origin of hotspot plumes, we have to resort to the dumbest greed inducing clickbait headline. What a sad time we live in
Haha right? It’s literally a paper about core–mantle interaction and they go with “THERES GOLD IN THE CORE!” People really only care about geology when it’s about finding ore deposits or oil. Except kids, kids love geology because rocks are cool. Adults need to be more like kids when it comes to science.
Smh my head