Hawaiian Volcanic Rocks Reveal Earth's Core Contains Vast Hidden Gold Reserves

Gold Is Leaking from Earth’s Core to the Surface, Scientists Say

Scientists discover traces of gold rising from Earth’s core. Credit: Eriyik altın / CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers at the University of Göttingen in Germany have uncovered rare traces of gold in volcanic rocks that may offer new insight into Earth’s deep core. The findings, published in Nature, suggest that some gold and other valuable elements on the surface may have originated from the planet’s core. The study centers on ruthenium, a scarce metal li…

The Earth's Core Is Leaking. The Result: More Gold

There's gold in them thar volcanoes.

Earth’s Core Is Leaking Gold Into Volcanoes, Scientists Say

Traces of ruthenium in volcanic rock point to a hidden geological highway.

Scientists stunned to find Earth’s core leaking gold and other precious metals

Over 99.99 per cent of Earth’s deposits of gold and other precious metals are locked away in its core

Tapping into the World's largest gold reserves

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 the Earth's metallic core and far beyond the reaches of humankind. Now, researchers have found traces of the precious metal Ruthenium (Ru) in volc…

Earth's core is leaking gold

Contrary to conspiracy theories, the Earth’s core isn’t hollow. The dense, hot ball instead contains a stew of precious metals including platinum, ruthenium, and pretty much all of the planet’s gold. As lucrative as that sounds, there’s essentially no way humanity will ever access this natural treasure chest buried beneath more than 1,850  feet of solid rock. But according to recent discoveries made at volcanoes in Hawai’i, trace amounts of some…