Within remote Antarctica is a volcano that erupts solid gold. Every day, the towering Mount Erebus stratovolcano ejects several ounces of metallic gold through many millions of tiny elemental gold particles. Although this sounds like a story told in legends, it is completely true. This video will discuss how Mount Erebus erupts molten gold and discuss the feasibility of a mining operation near its summit.
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0:00 "Gold" at the Masaya Volcano
0:35 Gold at Mount Erebus
1:26 How Gold Deposits Form
2:04 Gold at Galeras
2:15 How Gold Forms at Erebus
3:20 Feasibility of a Mining Operation
Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google
Citations:
[1] TY - JOUR
AU - Meeker, Kimberly A.
AU - Chuan, Ray L.
AU - Kyle, Philip R.
AU - Palais, Julie M.
TI - Emission of elemental gold particles from Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica
JO - Geophysical Research Letters
JA - Geophys. Res. Lett.
VL - 18
IS - 8
SN - 0094-8276
UR - [ Ссылка ]
DO - [ Ссылка ]
SP - 1405
EP - 1408
PY - 1991
