{"id":175928,"date":"2023-11-13T04:25:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/transient-treasures-scientists-unearth-golds-remarkable-origin-story"},"modified":"2023-11-13T04:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:25:51","slug":"transient-treasures-scientists-unearth-golds-remarkable-origin-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/transient-treasures-scientists-unearth-golds-remarkable-origin-story","title":{"rendered":"Transient Treasures: Scientists Unearth Gold\u2019s Remarkable Origin Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transient-treasures-scientists-unearth-golds-remarkable-origin-story2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New research offers a theory on how gold, platinum, and other precious metals found their way to shallow pockets within Earth\u2019s mantle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) 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 mantle, and ends with precious metals finding an unlikely resting spot much closer to the planet\u2019s surface than scientists would have predicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research offers a theory on how gold, platinum, and other precious metals found their way to shallow pockets within Earth\u2019s mantle. Scientists at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175928","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}