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Striking gold: Earthquakes deposit precious metal
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| 03-17-2013
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Posted on 03/18/2013 12:52:39 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Gold nuggets on display on April 29, 2011 in Jamestown, California. Solid gold can be deposited in Earth's crust "almost instantaneously" during earthquakes, said a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday.
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03/18/2013 12:54:13 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Red Badger
It’s funny how gold nuggets resemble chewed pieces of wax. :)
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03/18/2013 1:00:12 PM PDT
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MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: Red Badger
Ok, but what does this have to do with global warming?
As far as I can tell, all “science” is done with an eye toward global warming, in an effort to increase funding.
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03/18/2013 1:01:14 PM PDT
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brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: Red Badger
Thanks for posting.
Just WOW!
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posted on
03/18/2013 1:02:24 PM PDT
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headsonpikes
(Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
To: Red Badger
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03/18/2013 1:03:31 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Red Badger
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03/18/2013 1:08:23 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: brownsfan
Gold causes people to get wealthy and buy stuff so it makes global warming........
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03/18/2013 1:08:42 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Red Badger
“Gold causes people to get wealthy and buy stuff so it makes global warming........”
I see. So this is a crisis and we need to figure out how to stop it? Or, at least figure out how to vaporize any newly created gold?
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03/18/2013 1:15:18 PM PDT
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brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: brownsfan
Well, if we’re ALL poor, then we can’t buy stuff, so no more global warming............
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posted on
03/18/2013 1:20:49 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Red Badger
I wonder how much gold was released from the Mt. St. Helens eruption. Sure would like to do a little sluicing in that neighborhood...
To: JoeProBono
Since that dredge goes deeper than the guys with the hoses, he could clean out the claims that they are finished with........
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03/18/2013 1:28:03 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: headsonpikes
One theory is that the heavier elements sank into the core of the liquid formation of the proto-earth, during the heavy bombardment era. As the earth fractures from the mantle shifting, the gold floats above the heavier elements and oozes out to fill the veins formed by earthquakes over eons. The original gold itself was formed in the nova explosion of a star.....
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03/18/2013 1:34:12 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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03/18/2013 1:35:29 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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03/18/2013 1:38:12 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Red Badger
"Since that dredge goes deeper than the guys with the hoses..."
Look at the REAL dredge in the background...now THAT is a real money maker.
To: Red Badger
Wait a minute. Gold can be made by pressure. Coal can be made by pressure. I wonder who will be saying the Earth is only 100,000 years old and the rocks are 700million years old.
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posted on
03/18/2013 1:50:18 PM PDT
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Baseballguy
(If we knew what we know now in Oct would we do anything different?)
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posted on
03/18/2013 1:51:59 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Baseballguy
Gold is made in the death of a star’s nuclear furnace. It ‘falls’ into the gravity well of another star, where it eventually is accreted into one of its planets........
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03/18/2013 1:55:24 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Red Badger
The article reads like some physicist down in the basement with a pocket protector who has never actually looked at a rock, let alone a thin section under crossed polars, thinks he just discovered the phenomenon of hydrothermal ore emplacement, and its connection to structural geology, seismic activity, chemical complexation, thermodynamics, and reaction rate kinetics.
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03/18/2013 1:56:12 PM PDT
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