Know How to Extract Gold from Seawater
It is really incredible to know about the
total quantity of other precious metals and gold dissolved in sea water. It has
been estimated that since mining began about 6,000 years ago we have mined over
5 billion troy ounces of gold.
According to Refurbished Gold Plants by comparison, the concentration of gold in
seawater is the oceans somewhere contain in the region of 25 billion troy
ounces, and as more gold comes out from the earth's mantle that this quantity
is increasing constantly.
A few companies have trials underway and
there are several ways in which this gold could be collected. Basically refining
the residue and distilling seawater Distillation would be one method.
Though potentially a product of
desalination plants with added stages to boil off the water is considerable
this is uneconomic as the energy required. To some degree in sea water
practically all naturally occurring elements besides gold are dissolved.
Literally there is now a more potentially
economic and exciting solution. There are cracks in the ocean floor into which
sea water penetrates in regions of the ocean bottom where the earth's tectonic
plates are separating (you may have heard of the continental drift and Mid-Atlantic
Ridge for example).
It is heated in the minerals (of hot soft
rock these mid oceanic rises are made) and earth's mantle dissolves in it. Through
underwater fumaroles the mineral-loaded water emerges, and building
chimney-shaped structures the minerals are deposited. Refurbished Gold Plants are involved in this.
Surviving in this over three hundred
previously unknown species have been apparently discovered by inhospitable
environment Scientists, where water pressure is as much as three hundred times
that at the surface and temperatures can reach over 200 degrees centigrade or
more. These species range from giant tube worms, shrimp and limpets to bacteria.
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