Where does all Earth's gold come from?

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 15:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after the Earth was formed.

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