Scientists discover unexpected process that can turn quartz into huge gold nuggets

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Scientists discover unexpected process that can turn quartz into huge gold nuggets

Scientists have uncovered the truth behind the incredible process that can turn quartz into huge gold nuggets.Gold and precious metals have long fascinated human beings, particularly when they are uncovered in vast amounts. The largest golden nugget ever found weighed as much as an adult man and...

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[robertk]

Interesting article, but the headline is inaccurate. They aren't turning quartz into gold at all. They're attempting to explain why gold is found in cracks in quartz. Like most things in geology, it comes down to heat and pressure.

 

[tamrock]

Yeah if they can produce gold from scratch it might become worthless, just like it did in this episode of the twilight zone. where this poor old fella uses time travel in order to take gold from his time into the future thinking it'll be worth so much more.

 

[dieselfool]

Yeah if they can produce gold from scratch it might become worthless, just like it did in this episode of the twilight zone. where this poor old fella uses time travel in order to take gold from his time into the future thinking it'll be worth so much more.

I watched that the first time it aired. It was one I always remembered.
Mainly the robbers wanted to go 100 years into the future to avoid prosecution for their crime. Of course they assumed gold would still be very valuable, as it always had been.

 

[tamrock]

I watched that the first time it aired. It was one I always remembered.
Mainly the robbers wanted to go 100 years into the future to avoid prosecution for their crime. Of course they assumed gold would still be very valuable, as it always had been.

It was definitely a well though out caper. Only goes to show it can be awfully risky at predicting the future. That's something I would not like to do when my employer would ask me to forecast future sales. Even if I did do it and it turned out to be correct they'd never be prepared for when it did come. They'd always says they just felt it was to much to risk and felt that I seemed to uncertain to guarantee the business would actually come their way.

 

[dowser]

Scientists discover unexpected process that can turn quartz into huge gold nuggets

Scientists have uncovered the truth behind the incredible process that can turn quartz into huge gold nuggets.Gold and precious metals have long fascinated human beings, particularly when they are uncovered in vast amounts. The largest golden nugget ever found weighed as much as an adult man and...

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Roughly I read, Protons determine element, with electrons matching in a neutral atom. Nuetrons determine mass. They would need to add 49 protons, and 88 nuetrons, to change a quartz atom to Gold atom. Somehow! It says on line, protons and nuetrons can be added to an atom. Both Quartz and Gold are Nuetral atoms.. Don't know just thinking, probably wrong like usual.. lol

 

[robertk]

They would need to add 49 protons, and 88 nuetrons, to change a quartz atom to Gold atom.

Quartz is not an atom, it's a compound composed of silicon and oxygen. You can't change quartz into gold -- and that's not what the scientists in the article are claiming. The article has a misleading title (clickbait?). They claim that heat and pressure cause quartz to generate an electrical field, and that this electrical field can cause gold that is already present in solution to collect in the cracks in the quartz. They're not creating anything, just attempting to explain why the two are found together.

 

[dowser]

Quartz is not an atom, it's a compound composed of silicon and oxygen. You can't change quartz into gold -- and that's not what the scientists in the article are claiming. The article has a misleading title (clickbait?). They claim that heat and pressure cause quartz to generate an electrical field, and that this electrical field can cause gold that is already present in solution to collect in the cracks in the quartz. They're not creating anything, just attempting to explain why the two are found together.

I saw a physics question, nothing mislead me. Quartz is a compound of atoms. The compound consists of Protons, Electrons, Nuetrons. Gold is Protons, Electrons, Nuetrons. Their both neutral, both have the same goop. Just mixed up diffrent..
I didn't say it was being done..

 

[robertk]

I saw a physics question,

And you speculated an answer that is an impossibility.

Quartz is a compound of atoms. The compound consists of Protons, Electrons, Nuetrons. Gold is Protons, Electrons, Nuetrons.

You can't add protons or neutrons or electrons or anything else to a compound and produce a different atom (at least short of nuclear fusion).

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Quartz is not an atom, it's a compound composed of silicon and oxygen. You can't change quartz into gold -- and that's not what the scientists in the article are claiming. The article has a misleading title (clickbait?). They claim that heat and pressure cause quartz to generate an electrical field, and that this electrical field can cause gold that is already present in solution to collect in the cracks in the quartz. They're not creating anything, just attempting to explain why the two are found together.

NO! Not click bait youtube videos posted here??!

 

[dowser]

And you speculated an answer that is an impossibility.


You can't add protons or neutrons or electrons or anything else to a compound and produce a different atom (at least short of nuclear fusion).

Physically impossible yes, but quantum Physically impossible? No, not necessarily. We Physically can't replicate Megalithic structures. But they are there.
Was the atoms changed, was frequency and vibration used, was gravity weakened, redirected, or blocked. We don't know it all yet. I question things.. No offense!

 

[DizzyDigger]

Gold is only produced in one (possibly two) situations.

For a long time it was thought that gold was only produced in supernova's, but then after years of research they started to question that theory, and determined that a supernova might only produce a small amount of the gold found in the universe.

They thought that perhaps large amounts of gold are produced in neutron star mergers/collisions. And after doing the science, they found this also not to hold true. Gold was definitely produced in the collisions, but not enough to account for the amount of gold in the universe.

Very interesting article that explains it in fairly understandable English:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2026110118

 

[Crow]

It sure looks pretty when gold is infused in quartz fractures. usually the product of epithemal vents where super heated highly mineralized water cools in quartz fractures.

That chunk was about 70k

Crow

 

[Crow]

Speaking of gold. There is an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter named 16 Psyche that scientists believe contains more than 700 quintillion dollars in gold and other precious metals.

It’s not the biggest one in the belt, about 120 miles in diameter (roughly the distance between Los Angeles and San Diego). 16 Psyche is known as an M-type asteroid. In the weird and wonderful jargon of astronomy, “M-type” is short for “metallic type”.

How many metals? Well, at current market prices, 16 Psyche contain enough gold and other precious metals to be worth roughly $700 quintillion, which is enough to give every single human being on this planet a private fortune of nearly a hundred billion bucks.

See picture below.

NASA is sent a mission to 16 Psyche, launched in 2022. It’s studied the asteroid.

Most asteroids are either dirt lumps with a little bit of ice or ice lumps with a little bit of dirt. But 16 Psyche is neither? it’s metal. Astronomers suspect that the asteroid is really the leftover core from a blasted apart planet?

It suffered some horrible catastrophe event. it was theorized that it was part of a destroyed planet. By studying the asteroid, astronomers can gain some precious clues as to the formation of our solar system.

Not surprisingly, all that gold has inspired the creation of several asteroid mining companies. Planetary Resources, an asteroid mining company, raised $50 million in funding from 2012 to 2016 and launched two test satellites into orbit before its acquisition by ConsenSys in 2018. AstroForge, another asteroid mining company, has raised $13 million in seed funding in 2022 alone.
Here is the catch If you want to go gold mining on 16 Psyche and gobble some of those quintillions for yourself, I’m afraid you’re not going to get as rich as you think you might?

If you think about it, for starters, the gold is in the asteroid, and the distance between Earth and the Asteroid Belt ranges from 3.2 and 4.2 AU – 478.7 to 628.3 million km or 297.45 to 390.4 million miles away.

You have to have the technology to get there, dig it up, and return big chunks of it back to Earth–something that nobody has ever done before, and the cost might be just too astronomical to be viable.

Also ya much take in consideration, that value of the gold in 16 Psyche is based on the current market value, which is in part due to its relative scarcity. If you were to dump millions of pounds of the good stuff on onto the market, its value of gold just might drop being virtually worthless.

Even so maybe one day when we are long gone and if we have not blown ourselves back to stone age through war. The concept of robotic mining on the moon first then further afield in our solar system might be more common than we imagine.

Science fiction? think again.

Nasa mining rover

Crow