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18 Nov 2014, 12:14 pm
ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
ZenDen wrote:
Living in northern CA I've had a chance to go gold prospecting. There's still lots of gold in CA.
In fact someone recently found a huge 6 lb. nugget not too far from where I live.
Many prospectors and geologists are convinced, most of the gold that came to the Earth as asteroids/meteors, came down in huge chunks.
This is the reason, they say, why the huge gold deposits in the earth are relatively localized, like the California
gold fields.
In fact someone recently found a huge 6 lb. nugget not too far from where I live.
Many prospectors and geologists are convinced, most of the gold that came to the Earth as asteroids/meteors, came down in huge chunks.
This is the reason, they say, why the huge gold deposits in the earth are relatively localized, like the California
gold fields.
That is interesting, thanks. So it could be plausible some asteroids are more goldy than others and there could be some in an area where a lot of gold just happened to be lingering around and then solidified which little objects tend to do when around each other in great number thus creating an asteroid that is made of more gold than the norm.
From the looks of common iron meteorites it can be assumed these have formed under pressure and gravity in order to form the nickel/iron material they are formed of. How hard is it to visualize deposits of gold and other materials (although much rarer). The heat of re-entry would probably melt the gold on the way down......now that would be a sight to see.
