For millions of years, humans have fought to get gold because it was a symbol of wealth and because they made it easier to trade and get food or clothing. It is a very coveted metal for its brightness, because it is very malleable and resistant but what makes it more attractive, leaving aside its high value, is that it can be anywhere in nature. Can be seen in the form of nugget And bullion, for example, but what NASA has just discovered completely changes this concept.
And is that this American agency has found a large reserve of more than 20 million tons of gold, as published Gizmodosuspended in the waters of the seas and oceans around the world. Metal concentrations are dissolved in a huge mass of water, so it is difficult to make this gold profitable and even extract it. This website has also calculated that for each liter of marine water there are 0.0000005 grams of gold, such a ridiculous concentration that extracts it is unfeasible.
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To give an example, throughout the history of mankind, about 200,000 tons of gold have been achieved. A figure that, when compared to the estimation of small pieces of gold in the sea, is very small. Because in the seas there are 100 times more and although it is the largest reserve of gold that is known is inaccessible since it is located in the nucleus of the Earth, where about 2 million billion tons are calculated as the geology expert Bernard Wood has declared.
Experts advise not to extract gold
Although it might seem a real fortune, experts have indicated that getting that amount of gold besides being practically impossible, it involves risks. Today there are very precise instruments that help extract the valuable metal from the most hidden sites. As for the bottom of the sea, you have to know that it is not gold the only thing they hide but that you can find other minerals, especially in the areas where there are sulfur hydrotemal.
These areas, although they are mostly unexplored, already have small farms such as Papua New Guinea where the first underwater mining permit has been issued (2017). Thanks to this you could talk about the so -called ‘gold fever’ returning.
Ecologists, on the other hand, are against seabed to be accessed because they consider that species that inhabit them, some very vulnerable. According to their calculations, these extractions could destroy hundreds of square kilometers of marine surface.