Researchers Discover Bacteria That Can Produce Pure Gold

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  1. Emanance

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    http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/10/researchers-discover-bacteria-that-can-produce-pure-gold/

    I've cut and pasted the title straight from the article. Gizmodo is quite sensationalist like that. After reading the article it's basically announcing a newly discovered bacteria named Cupriavidus metallidurans that simply separates the gold from the chloride in auric chloride (gold chloride or Gold trichloride). Perhaps this has ramifications for new methods of refining or mining. but these little buggers certainly don't have the 'golden touch', so keep on stacking my good fellows.

    Regards, Emanance.
     
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  2. Howiefied

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    Wow, isn't science crazy.
     
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    Misleading title.

    The research shows that a bacteria can separate gold from a compound called 'gold chloride', which already contains some gold to begin with.

    This is not the same as producing gold from other elements that don't have any gold in it in the first place.
     
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    House Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    No idea what gold chloride is, but it sounds like something i'd like to bath in ..... Possibly.
     
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  6. Emanance

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    :lol: Only if you don't like having kidneys or white blood cells. :lol:
     
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    Oh i was hoping i'd come out looking like one of those gold statue buskers in the mall. :D
     
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    my father had a project when one of his ph.d. students used some plant to grow on remains (or how it is called) that was left from gold mining facilities. They found the plant that would grow in very hot climate(and I bet there are other plants that could do it even better) and that would consume gold from these remains. The problem was - economical way of extraction of gold from plants. The team just hadn't had any expertise at that time how to do it. Approached big mining company but they have enough of gold to extract ... so, looks like it was not profitable back then (some 10 years ago). May be now?!

    The project was self financed, people engaged in it are elsewhere but not in mining industry )
     
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    It's this type of development that 'might' eventually see the viable extraction of gold from sea water. At which point.... stop stacking gold. :-(
     
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  12. Emanance

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    Great post uuuuuuuumm!
     
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  13. Emanance

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    You don't know what that plant's name is? I have the sudden urge to plant some trees :D.
     
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