{"id":14245,"date":"2026-06-29T15:24:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14245"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:29:14","slug":"the-golden-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/29\/the-golden-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-worlds-southernmost-active-volcano-is-spewing-out-gold-every-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Science Alert<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>There&#8217;s a Volcano in Antarctica Spewing Gold Crystals Into The Atmosphere<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/michelle-starr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MICHELLE STARR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ANTARCTICA: The MYSTERIOUS Place Where a VOLCANO SPITS GOLD - You will NOT believe it\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/beXEsxuLrNc?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lava. Ash.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/vesuvius-eruption-turned-a-victims-brain-to-glass-heres-how\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Horrifying death<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-massive-volcano-destroyed-methane-in-the-sky-and-scientists-are-stunned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">known and expected<\/a>\u00a0outputs from an active volcano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But one volcano deep in the farthest, frozen reaches of our planet marches to the beat of a slightly different drum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/its-official-antarcticas-iconic-emperor-penguins-are-endangered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ross Island<\/a>\u00a0in the Ross Sea, a deep bay in Antarctica, Mount Erebus fumes about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.antarcticanz.govt.nz\/scott-base\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,350 kilometers<\/a>\u00a0(840 miles) from the Geographic South Pole. The world&#8217;s southernmost active volcano, it bubbles with a permanent lake of blazing lava.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in the gas constantly pouring forth from this gate to the underworld, scientists found microscopic particles of crystalline, elemental gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a 1991 research paper, published in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/91GL01928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Geophysical Research Letters<\/a><\/em>, Erebus belches out about 80 grams (2.8 ounces) of microscopic gold dust per day, scattering it as far as 1,000 kilometers away \u2013 maybe even farther.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-worlds-southernmost-active-volcano-is-spewing-out-gold-every-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Science Alert<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Science Alert There&#8217;s a Volcano in Antarctica Spewing Gold Crystals Into The Atmosphere By\u00a0MICHELLE STARR Lava. Ash.\u00a0Horrifying death. All are\u00a0known and expected\u00a0outputs from an active volcano. But one volcano deep in the farthest, frozen reaches of our planet marches to the beat of a slightly different drum. On\u00a0Ross Island\u00a0in the Ross Sea, a deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14246,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245\/revisions\/14246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}