“Supergian” deposit of high quality gold ore containing approximately 1000 metric tonnes (1100 tonnes in the United States) of precious metal was discovered in central China in late 2024, according to Chinese state media.
Up to $ 600 billion or $ 83 billion, the discovery can be one of the largest and most lucrative gold tanks that have ever discovered, exceeding 900 metric tonnes calculated to lie in all gold reserves, southern deep mine in South Africa.
Some commentators are not yet convinced of the scale and deposit opportunities, but if the discovery becomes checked, it will be a major find for China.
The Hunan Geological Bureau has announced the discovery of 40 gold veins at a depth of 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) in the Northeastern Hunan County in Pinjian.
They are thought to contain 300 metric tonnes of gold, with 3D modeling suggests that additional reserves can be found at a depth of 3 kilometers.
“A lot of drilled rock nuclei showed visible gold,” Bureau prospector Chen Rulin said during the discovery.
The main samples suggest that every metric tone of ore can contain up to 138 grams (nearly 5 ounces) gold – an exceptional level of quality, given the ore, dug from underground mines, is considered a high class if it contains more than 8 grams.
China already dominates the global gold market with reserves, considered over 2000 tonnes in 2024, its mining industry contributes about 10 percent of global production.
The findings of findings initially contributed to the more increasing increase in the increasing price of gold, with the requirements for the resource as a whole increasing greatly in a time of global economic uncertainty.
How many vouchers of valuable ore remain to be found around the world is unclear, with experts being divided if we have reached peak gold.
Excluded in the stoves of stars long before the Earth is formed, the glittering veins of our planet are a limited resource that takes Aoni to precipitate in an easily minimal form.
The new discovery is expected to contain about 1000 metric tonnes of gold. (Bodnarchuk/Getty Images)
Based on these findings, we may be far from the exhausting economically viable reserves.
The main samples taken around the periphery of the Hunan site suggest that the deposit can extend even further than the original forecasts, which makes the tank under its soil a real dragon.
The discovery at the end of 2024 limited what was a remarkable year for gold discoveries.
In March 2024, a treasure hunter in England found that what was evaluated is perhaps the largest gold native ever found in the country.
The Grand Gold Native, the Nugget Nickname “of Hiro”, weighing 64.8 grams. (Mulock Jones)
And only months later, research by scientists in Australia has discovered a new mechanism that can lead to the formation of gold, which suggests that the seismic activity of earthquakes actually plays a role in the creation of great natives.
But that’s not all. In addition to learning more about how gold is natural, scientists are also exploring new things that can be done to manipulate the valuable resource.
A study, published in April 2024, reported the creation of a new type of two -dimensional gold called “Goldene”, measuring only one layer of atoms of height that has some interesting properties that are not visible in the three -dimensional shape of gold.
While gold is an ancient metal that has been valuable throughout human history, there are obviously many things that we still find about it.
A larger version of this article was published in November 2024.