https://freerepublic.com/tag/golddust/ en-us Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:05:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4386031/posts Lava. Ash. Horrifying death. All are known and expected outputs from an active volcano. But one volcano deep in the farthest, frozen reaches of our planet marches to the beat of a slightly different drum. On Ross Island in the Ross Sea, a deep bay in Antarctica, Mount Erebus fumes about 1,350 kilometers (840 miles) from the Geographic South Pole. The world's southernmost active volcano, it bubbles with a permanent lake of blazing lava. And in the gas constantly pouring forth from this gate to the underworld, scientists found microscopic particles of crystalline, elemental gold. According to a 1991 research... Science Alert https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4386031/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:05:04 GMT