99.999%+ of the Earth's gold

[beepbleep]

Interesting, we have found so little. If there was just a way to Travel to the Center of the Earth.

More than 99.999% of Earth’s gold and precious metals remain locked in its metallic core, buried approximately 3,000 kilometers beneath the surface. Estimates suggest there is enough gold in the core to cover all land surfaces with a layer 50 centimeters thick—an astonishing quantity inaccessible to humanity. These metals were trapped during the planet’s formation 4.5 billion years ago, when heavier elements sank to the center in a process known as the iron catastrophe.

 

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Over 99.999% of Earth’s gold is trapped in its core, slowly reaching the surface through volcanic activity.

Earth’s core harbors a vast reservoir of gold and other precious metals that are slowly leaking upward through the mantle and erupting onto the surface via volcanic activity, according to groundbreaking research published in Nature.

Scientists from the University of Göttingen have uncovered definitive isotopic evidence in Hawaiian volcanic rocks, revealing a dynamic connection between Earth’s innermost layer and its surface. This discovery challenges long-held assumptions about the isolation of the planet’s core and offers new insights into its internal dynamics.

 

[GirlWithWolf]

I just searched the deepest hole ever dug, it is 12,262 meters (In Russia, called the Kola Superdeep Borehole). If I can climb down in there I’d only have 2,987,738 more meters to go. Wording it as 2988 kilometers makes it sound even more manageable.

 

[Gare]

Interesting, we have found so little. If there was just a way to Travel to the Center of the Earth.

More than 99.999% of Earth’s gold and precious metals remain locked in its metallic core, buried approximately 3,000 kilometers beneath the surface. Estimates suggest there is enough gold in the core to cover all land surfaces with a layer 50 centimeters thick—an astonishing quantity inaccessible to humanity. These metals were trapped during the planet’s formation 4.5 billion years ago, when heavier elements sank to the center in a process known as the iron catastrophe.

Over 99.999% of Earth’s gold is trapped in its core, slowly reaching the surface through volcanic activity.

Earth’s core harbors a vast reservoir of gold and other precious metals that are slowly leaking upward through the mantle and erupting onto the surface via volcanic activity, according to groundbreaking research published in Nature.

Scientists from the University of Göttingen have uncovered definitive isotopic evidence in Hawaiian volcanic rocks, revealing a dynamic connection between Earth’s innermost layer and its surface. This discovery challenges long-held assumptions about the isolation of the planet’s core and offers new insights into its internal dynamics.

I do NOT believe everything I see and read on the internet

 

[DizzyDigger]

I just searched the deepest hole ever dug, it is 12,262 meters (In Russia, called the Kola Superdeep Borehole). If I can climb down in there I’d only have 2,987,738 more meters to go. Wording it as 2988 kilometers makes it sound even more manageable.

Hope you like hot weather...it's a bit toasty down there.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Once you enter the planet the gravity diminishes. At the mass center you are weightless. Gravity of the surrounding planet pulls at you about equally in all directions. You only experience net directional gravity from outside masses, like the moon, planets and the sun.

So where exactly is a high specific gravity element to accumulate? Why not the crust fringe where we find it? That is all there is and there ain't no more.


Perhaps the center is a gas void? We have theories so far, not hard evidence.

 

[beepbleep]

Just a couple of buckets would do me.

 

[beepbleep]

I do NOT believe everything I see and read on the internet

https://newatlas.com/science/the-worlds-largest-gold-deposit-is-under-our-feet-and-out-of-reach/

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-hawaiian-volcanic-reveal-earth-core.html

https://www.geologyin.com/2025/05/gold-core-in-hawaiian-volcanic-rocks.html

 

[UnderMiner]

I bet there's something more valuable than gold sitting in plain sight that we just haven't realised is there, or valuable yet - like some sort of trans dimensional element that phases in and out of existence or has the ability to be in two places at once. Imagine a communication device that doesn't need electricity because changing one part of it automatically changes another part of it miles away without energy, this is called Quantum Superposition, proven to exist on a microscopic level, imagine it on a large scale.

 

[DizzyDigger]

Once you enter the planet the gravity diminishes. At the mass center you are weightless. Gravity of the surrounding planet pulls at you about equally in all directions. You only experience net directional gravity from outside masses, like the moon, planets and the sun.

True indeed...you would be weightless. On the other hand, your carcass would also be
squished to about the size of a cricket as the pressure there is roughly 3.6 million times
what we feel on the surface.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Once you enter the planet the gravity diminishes. At the mass center you are weightless. Gravity of the surrounding planet pulls at you about equally in all directions. You only experience net directional gravity from outside masses, like the moon, planets and the sun.

So where exactly is a high specific gravity element to accumulate? Why not the crust fringe where we find it? That is all there is and there ain't no more.


Perhaps the center is a gas void? We have theories so far, not hard evidence.

Why, then, does pressure increase as you go deeper underwater? Why don't we have cave-ups instead of cave-ins?

 

[DizzyDigger]

Why, then, does pressure increase as you go deeper underwater? Why don't we have cave-ups instead of cave-ins?

Gravity.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Why, then, does pressure increase as you go deeper underwater? Why don't we have cave-ups instead of cave-ins?

Why not

Or, because gravity pulls everything from all directions around your position and tries to compress you. Fluids are free to respond as faithful foot soldiers to the lord gravity.

Please explain your concept of the nexus regards ups and ins. I get ups and downs, and even ins and outs, but you have baffled my feeble mind by contrasting ups with ins.

True indeed...you would be weightless. On the other hand, your carcass would also be
squished to about the size of a cricket as the pressure there is roughly 3.6 million times
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Sounds very cozy. I better bring only those I like along