Bacteria make gold nuggets, according to discovery news.

[Astrobouncer]

Saw a link to this article on another forum and thought you guys would appreciate it. The article says that bacteria redeposit gold in rock cracks after they dissolve it.

Here's a link to the article:

http://news.discovery.com/earth/gold-bacteria-nuggets.html

 

[maui]

astrobouncer, thanks much for the link and i will check it out, just sounds? interesting.
take care and be safe out there. ron

 

[Hoser John]

Info almost 30 years old as reported in ICMJ and almost every rag on earth John

 

[Astrobouncer]

Hey fellas, all is indeed well with me and I do appreciate your info and feedback. For the past year at least I have been pretty heavily into geology, doing research every night and reading everything I can get my hands on. So the whole bacteria-eating-gold theory kind of blindsided me since it goes against so much of what I have learned over the past year on how and where gold forms. I realize there's not a whole lot we can do with that info, that article was just something I hadn't heard before and I thought others might be interested in as well.

 

[TURNMASTER]

That's wild, but what to do with the knowledge.

Jeff

 

[jog]

Break out the beakers and lab coats.

 

[yazjones]

SOOOOOOOOOO.......... Gold = Bacteria POOP!!

 

[FiresEye]

You thought YOUR gold was small... check out my bacteria poop. Sure puts that Fly poop to the test!