Bacteria makes gold nuggets - GoFuckYourself.com

fudpuck · 07-19-2006, 05:56 PM

It seems this microbe removes dissolved gold from its immediate environment, and accumulates it into grains of gold. You still have to have dissolved gold, but it's interesting...

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Scientists have discovered that a lowly bacteria that has the Midas touch?it appears to turn dissolved metal into solid gold.

The bacteria, called Ralstonia metallidurans, was identified by Frank Reith of Australian National University and his colleagues as the common denominator among bacteria comprising a dried organic biofilm found on the surface of gold grains collected from a park and gold mines in southern New South Wales and northern Queensland, Australia.

Reith then isolated and grew more of the bacteria in the lab and used a scanning electron microscope to observe gold precipitation in the presence of the microbe. It took just eight hours for a small grain to form.

Testing a theory for how gold grains form when it starts out dissolved in a liquid solution, he confirmed that the bacteria play an important role in the formation of this type of gold nugget. Others thought the grains might come out of solution by some other chemical or leftover process.

http://www.livescience.com/othernews..._bacteria.html
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betabomb · 07-19-2006, 05:59 PM

my little brother eats jewelry and we have to dig it out of his shit

MarkMan · 07-19-2006, 06:02 PM

MaddCaz · 07-19-2006, 06:03 PM

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my little brother eats jewelry and we have to dig it out of his shit

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fudpuck · 07-19-2006, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by betabomb

my little brother eats jewelry and we have to dig it out of his shit

Similar concept..

reynold · 07-19-2006, 06:14 PM

I thought gold is a pure substance?

minusonebit · 07-19-2006, 06:17 PM

Hmmm. Intresting.

Big_Red · 07-19-2006, 06:19 PM

wonder if gold prices will go down now.

fudpuck · 07-19-2006, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by reynold

I thought gold is a pure substance?

It is pure. But it seems this bacteria just takes very small bits of gold that's dissolved in other substances and groups them together.

Bdiddy · 07-19-2006, 06:30 PM

that's very interesting...were the alchemists right?

LittleSassy · 07-19-2006, 06:32 PM

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my little brother eats jewelry and we have to dig it out of his shit

fudpuck · 07-20-2006, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by BluewireBrian

that's very interesting...were the alchemists right?

Not quite..

notabook · 07-20-2006, 10:41 AM

Now if they can just figure out a way to make bacteria help to make our penises grow larger, we'll have a winnAr.

3M TA3 · 07-20-2006, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by fudpuck

It is pure. But it seems this bacteria just takes very small bits of gold that's dissolved in other substances and groups them together.

sounds like it's removing the bond to the other materials. Gold still has to be present in the material, but this might effect the profitability in refinsing gold ore concentrate and gold bearing mineral ores.

I'd like to see the cost factor of growing this bacteria vs the amount of gold that it will process in a given time.

Ace_luffy · 07-20-2006, 10:56 AM

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interracialtoons · 07-20-2006, 11:27 AM

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nikki99 · 07-20-2006, 11:42 AM

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