{"id":173999,"date":"2023-10-11T19:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T00:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/new-research-offers-a-theory-on-how-gold-platinum-and-other-precious-metals-found-their-way-into-earths-mantle"},"modified":"2023-10-11T19:29:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T00:29:30","slug":"new-research-offers-a-theory-on-how-gold-platinum-and-other-precious-metals-found-their-way-into-earths-mantle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/new-research-offers-a-theory-on-how-gold-platinum-and-other-precious-metals-found-their-way-into-earths-mantle","title":{"rendered":"New research offers a theory on how gold, platinum, and other precious metals found their way into Earth\u2019s mantle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-offers-a-theory-on-how-gold-platinum-and-other-precious-metals-found-their-way-into-earths-mantle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute (SRI) say they\u2019ve hit the jackpot with some valuable new information about the story of gold.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a story that begins with violent collisions of large objects in space, continues in a half-melted region of Earth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mantle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mantle<\/a>, and ends with precious metals finding an unlikely resting spot much closer to the planet\u2019s surface than scientists would have predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Jun Korenaga, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences in Yale\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Simone Marchi, a researcher at SRI in Boulder, Colorado, provide details in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2309181120\">study<\/a> in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute (SRI) say they\u2019ve hit the jackpot with some valuable new information about the story of gold. It\u2019s a story that begins with violent collisions of large objects in space, continues in a half-melted region of Earth\u2019s mantle, and ends with precious metals finding an unlikely resting spot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}