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Scientists Discover Earth’s Core Leaking Gold Worth $169.6 Sextillion
A vast gold reserve in the Earth’s core might be worth an incredible $169.6 sextillion.
To make matters worse, it is seeping out towards the surface via the mantle.
Scientists have literally struck gold when they discovered that the Earth’s crust contains precious metals.
In a press release from Göttingen University in Germany, geochemist Nils Messling said: “Our data confirmed that material from the core, including gold and other precious metals, is leaking into the Earth’s mantle above.”
And that’s only a small portion of the gold that is concealed deep within the Earth; according to specialists, it could be sufficient to cover the entire planet in 20 inches of gold.
However, what is the potential value of all this gold? We are sitting on a fortune, AI says.
The enormous quantity of gold is thought to “have been sequestered in the core during Earth’s formation, as heavy elements like gold sank into the molten iron core,” according to ChatGPT’s estimation.
The AI then determined the value of this gold, stating that the current price of gold is “approximately $106 per gramme, or $106,000 per kilogramme,” and that the total amount of gold in the core is “1.6 quadrillion tonnes = 1.6 × 10¹⁵ tonnes = 1.6 × 10¹⁸ kilogrammes.”
This “equates to approximately $169.6 sextillion USD,” according to ChatGPT.
The AI bot continued, “However, it’s important to note that this gold is located about 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) beneath the Earth’s surface, making it inaccessible with current technology. Moreover, if such a vast quantity of gold were suddenly introduced into the market, it would drastically reduce its value due to oversupply.”
“The recent studies revealing traces of core-derived materials in volcanic rocks, particularly from Hawaii, suggest that over geological timescales, small amounts of these precious metals have been transported from the core to the surface. This ongoing process provides valuable insights into Earth’s internal dynamics and the distribution of elements.”
Geochemist Matthias Willbold from Göttingen University added: “Our findings not only show that the Earth’s core is not as isolated as previously assumed.”
“We can now also prove that huge volumes of superheated mantle material – several hundred quadrillion metric tons of rock – originate at the core-mantle boundary and rise to the Earth’s surface to form ocean islands like Hawaii.”
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