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Know from where does all the Earth's gold come from

New Delhi: Researchers at the University of Bristol have provided  clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of gold are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was

PTI Published : Jul 17, 2013 23:59 IST, Updated : Jul 19, 2013 6:29 IST





According to the researchers,  gold, platinum, and tungsten that were present when Earth was born should have quickly bonded to iron and sunk into the planet's core. Those precious metals are thousands of times more prevalent on the surface of Earth and in its mantle than the models predict.

A famous researcher Willbold proposed that a colossal meteor shower about 4 billion years ago deposited the additional bling.

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