Timeline for Why do gold deposits form only in certain areas of the earth?
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| Mar 24, 2022 at 17:40 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 18, 2019 at 5:46 | comment | added | John | How do you get evenly distributed from that map? There is some pretty strong clustering almost as if surface conditions combine with underlying geology and tectonics affect the location of minerals. | |
| May 12, 2019 at 17:23 | comment | added | jamesqf | I notice that map doesn't show any gold deposits in California or Alaska/Yukon :-) It also doesn't show any in Nevada, even though there is fairly significant gold mining being done: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_gold_mines_in_Nevada | |
| May 10, 2019 at 11:00 | answer | added | Erik Bloem | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 4, 2018 at 23:22 | answer | added | Tyler Durden | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 16:15 | vote | accept | Nirvik Baruah | ||
| Jan 7, 2016 at 14:23 | answer | added | charmy | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 11, 2015 at 14:21 | history | edited | hichris123♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fix broken image (archive.org still has it!)
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| Feb 26, 2015 at 7:06 | answer | added | exg | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Aug 22, 2014 at 13:01 | comment | added | winwaed | The map is only showing larger deposits that are still available to be mined. For example, lead&zinc, copper, and iron were mined extensively in the UK (Cu & Fe were large deposits) but all are considered economically exhausted. Gold is still being mined in Wales albeit in small quantities, and it is/was recently being extracted in Scotland as a byproduct. I guess my point is that a lot of these minerals are more evenly distributed once you include worked-out deposits and smaller deposits. | |
| Aug 22, 2014 at 11:17 | answer | added | Gimelist | timeline score: 21 | |
| S Aug 22, 2014 at 10:47 | history | suggested | Gimelist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
tags and changed "mantle" to "crust"
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| Aug 22, 2014 at 9:28 | vote | accept | Nirvik Baruah | ||
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| Aug 21, 2014 at 13:47 | comment | added | Siv | earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/391/… may be tangentially relevant. | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 9:19 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 21, 2014 at 9:18 | comment | added | plannapus | I am by no mean a specialist in that domain, but Goldfarb et al. 2001 seems to be a nice review on gold deposits and the maps they are presenting are likely to be more accurate than this one. | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 9:12 | comment | added | plannapus | From your map, it seems to me that gold is actually pretty much evenly distributed on earth. At first glance, it is found (according to your map) in several west-african countries, in Congo, South Africa, Indonesia, Russia, China, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Brazil, Peru, Canada and Australia. | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 9:03 | history | asked | Nirvik Baruah | CC BY-SA 3.0 |