2023-05-05 08:00:01
Scientists believe this could help find gold deposits in Australia and the rest of the world.
Australia is known to be one of the countries with a large share of the gold mining reserves in the world. Therefore, the importance of developing new prospecting methods in this island country to locate deposits of the precious metal.
Although it may seem strange, a group of researchers recently discovered that a well-known family of trees can collect gold particles from the ground and deposit them on their leaves. As an indicator of a possible reserve.
These trees are eucalyptus eucalyptus, a type of tall tree of which there are more than 700 species. Most of these species come from Australia and New Guinea and are currently distributed worldwide for their use in the wood and ornamental industry.
The relationship of these majestic trees with gold was found by a group of scientists from the Commonwealth Industrial Scientific Organization, who discovered that eucalyptus trees in the Kalgoorlie region of Western Australia have the ability to drain gold particles from the ground.
These are sucked out of the soil by the eucalyptus trees like other minerals. However, because gold is probably toxic to plants, they expel it by depositing gold microparticles on their leaves and branches that fall to the ground.
The researchers claim to have verified the presence of gold particles in the eucalyptus leaves, which could imply the presence of gold deposits under the soil of these trees.
The research was published in the journal Nature Communications and was considered as a possible method for finding gold deposits in Australia and other parts of the world.
“We’ve found a lot of easy deposits in Australia and also in other places around the world,” said Mel Lintern, a geochemist with the Australian Commonwealth of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Fuente: debate.com.mx
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