Part of its allure is its sheer beauty, but its relative rarity in the Earth’s crust has also made gold one of the few prized ...

GOLD has been so large a factor in the prosperity and greatness of Australia, that the interesting subject of the origin of gold drifts and reefs must always possess to us something more than a ...

Also, carbon, like gold, is rare at the Earth’s surface ... interdisciplinary Origins of Life Initiative to coordinate research efforts into the origin of life on Earth, which includes specialists in ...

But just how much of this glittering resource has humanity extracted from the Earth ... approximately 212,582 tonnes of gold have been mined throughout human history. Remarkably, about two ...

A new discovery by two astrophysicists tells us that everyone on Earth has a little bit of gold, silver and platinum ... But this is the first time that the origin of heavy metals on Earth ...

More from Gwen about the effect of Gold on the USA. The search for gold has had a profound affect on the history of North America. In 1539, it was rumors of gold that drew the Spanish conquistador ...