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Scientists Discover How Bacteria Changes Ions Into Gold
Posted by Alyson Foster on February 6, 2013 
Bacteria with the ability to change ions into solid gold? This scenario may sound like a biochemist’s version of a fairy tale, but it’s real and scientists at McMaster University have just figured out how the process works.
Massacre of Yanomami Feared in Venezuela
Posted by Scott Wallace on August 29, 2012 Brazilian Prospectors Said To Raze Native Village As many as 80 Yanomami Indians are feared dead in a village deep in the jungles of Venezuela, victims of an alleged massacre carried out last month by Brazilian gold prospectors. According to a criminal complaint filed this week with prosecutors and military authorities in Puerto Ayacucho, capital…
Peruvians Protest Gold Mine Construction
Posted by Anne Marie Houppert on December 30, 2011 Peruvian President Ollanta Humala announced a state of emergency in parts of the country early in December in response to protests over the construction of a huge gold mine in Cajamarca, reported CNN; the state of emergency was lifted in mid-December. The protesters cite potential adverse environmental effects on water and agriculture. The U.S. Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp., which…
Posted by NG Emerging Explorer Saleem Ali looks at the history and possible future of basing economies on the gold standard.
Afghanistan’s Hidden Treasures at the Met
Posted by Ford Cochran on July 1, 2009 Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art last week. Archaeologist and National Geographic Fellow Fred Hiebert helped inventory the collection (and thousands more items) after the treasures—thought to have been lost forever—were rediscovered. And he curated the magnificent traveling exhibition. I asked Fred if I could…
Posted by Germany takes on the worlds this week, as the 3rd European Planetary Science Congress gets underway in Münster. Today’s cornucopia included a presentation from Gerhard Schmidt of the University of Mainz, who says that platinum rings come from outer space. More precisely, the idea is that platinum, gold, and other precious “iron-loving” metals were stripped…
