Did You Know That Volcanoes Can Erupt Gold Dust?

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I have always found volcanoes to be fascinating. I've always honestly wanted to watch one erupting in front of my own eyes from a safe distance away of course, but sadly I've not been that lucky so far. I have been through strong earthquakes, been in the eye of a hurricane, seen tornados, and even witnessed a mudslide pouring down the side of a mountain. But so far all the volcanos I have visited were nice and quiet at the time of my visit.

Another thing I've always wanted to do was to visit Antarctica. Why? Just to say that I have been there. It's kind of like Mt. Everest, why do they climb it, because it's there... But one of the most interesting things in Antarctica is a very active volcano by the name of Mount Erebus, one of the most active on the entire planet. It is 12, 488 feet (3,806 meters) high, so not a small hill. What sets this particular volcano apart from the rest is that as it erupts it spews 80 grams of gold into the atmosphere every single day. No other volcano on earth erupts so much gold.

Why does this volcano erupts so much gold and others don't? Scientists aren't sure why, but it must have massive gold ore deposits somewhere in the volcanic plumbing system. The gold dust has been found up to 620 miles (1000 km) away from the volcano itself. I think it would be cool to have a volcano raining gold dust down on me!

Here are some other views of the volcano when it's not exploding:

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Unfortunately for all of us gold prospectors mining in Antarctica is banned by international treaties. Not that you could likely get close enough to he volcano to collect much gold because it's frequently erupting. And it's not only erupting gold, there are rocks launched out as well as molten lava. When it's not erupting it is still very cold at the south pole pretty much year round!

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Then again looking at a nice pile of gold dust like that one could be very tempting! Now just thinking about the math, if it erupts 80 grams a day, 365 days a year, and just supposing it's been erupting for 500 years. That leaves us with 14,600,000 grams of gold just laying around on the ground just waiting to be found. Gold costs about $80 per gram so more than $1,168,000,000 worth of gold just laying around in Antarctica...

I can always dream...

That will do it for my post today. Kind of a treasure hunter story but not one any of us can ever collect on. It might be a better bet to search for Spanish pieces of eight along the Florida treasure coast on the sunny warm beach. I hope you found my post interesting, it sure gave me gold fever just writing it! Have a great day everyone and thank you so much for your support, it really means a lot to me!

References:

https://www.mining.com/antarctic-volcano-erupts-6000-worth-of-gold-daily/

Disclaimer:

I am not a financial planner and this isn't financial advice. Please always do your own research before investing your money. You worked hard enough to earn it!

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