{"id":14245,"date":"2026-06-29T15:24:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14245"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:38:28","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\">There&#8217;s a Volcano in Antarctica Spewing Gold Crystals Into The Atmosphere<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By&nbsp;<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.&nbsp;<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&nbsp;<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>&nbsp;outputs 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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/its-official-antarcticas-iconic-emperor-penguins-are-endangered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ross Island<\/a>&nbsp;in the Ross Sea, a deep bay in Antarctica, Mount Erebus fumes about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.antarcticanz.govt.nz\/scott-base\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,350 kilometers<\/a>&nbsp;(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&nbsp;<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&nbsp;MICHELLE STARR Lava. Ash.&nbsp;Horrifying death. All are&nbsp;known and expected&nbsp;outputs 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&nbsp;Ross Island&nbsp;in 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":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14247,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245\/revisions\/14247"}],"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}]}}