{"id":202855,"date":"2024-12-31T06:29:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/it-literally-takes-fire-and-brimstone-to-transport-gold-to-earths-surface"},"modified":"2024-12-31T06:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:29:40","slug":"it-literally-takes-fire-and-brimstone-to-transport-gold-to-earths-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/it-literally-takes-fire-and-brimstone-to-transport-gold-to-earths-surface","title":{"rendered":"It Literally Takes Fire And Brimstone to Transport Gold to Earth\u2019s Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/it-literally-takes-fire-and-brimstone-to-transport-gold-to-earths-surface2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The processes that haul gold up to the surface from deep within Earth\u2019s mantle rely on the sulfur that bubbles beneath active volcanoes.<\/p>\n<p>Two new papers have agreed that some forms of sulfur form molecular bonds with gold that would otherwise remain sequestered in the mantle, allowing the precious element to rise.<\/p>\n<p>What they don\u2019t quite agree on is which form of sulfur is most important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The processes that haul gold up to the surface from deep within Earth\u2019s mantle rely on the sulfur that bubbles beneath active volcanoes. Two new papers have agreed that some forms of sulfur form molecular bonds with gold that would otherwise remain sequestered in the mantle, allowing the precious element to rise. What they don\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202855","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}