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Our planet's gold arrived via colliding dead stars

MINING.com Editor | July 18, 2013 | 2:46 am Precious Metals Gold 

Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics claim that a large amount of Earth's gold came from gamma-ray bursts (GRB), energetic explosions caused by the collision of two neutron stars. Lead author Edo Berger estimates that the "amount of gold...

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