So far, geologists struggled to explain the chemical mechanism underlying the formation of gold deposits. But French researchers probably come to break this old mystery. The results obtained by a team of French researchers, led by Gleb S. Pokrovsky Geoscience (University of Toulouse, France) were astonishing.
And rightly so, since this work would finally explain the chemical process that allows gold to be extracted by the fluids circulating in the rocks where it is present in very small quantities and transported and kept in a place where precise quantity will increase significantly.
To understand why this phenomenon remained mysterious until now, we must first remember that gold is one of the rarest metals on Earth, with a content of a milligram per ton of rock only.
Another parameter to be considered to understand: gold is the most inert metal known to date. In other words, gold is difficult to transport by geological fluids
