Newsweek
By Ian Randall
Published May 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM EDT
There’s gold in them thar hills—or, at least, in the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands—along with other precious metals.
This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers who found evidence that metals are leaking from Earth’s core into the mantle, before being erupted at the surface.
“When the results first came in, we realized that we had literally struck gold,” said paper author and geochemist Nils Messling of Göttingen University, Germany, in a statement.
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