World's Biggest Trove of Gold Built by Ancient 'Secret Agents'

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Cool story, bro.

The source of Earth's biggest trove of gold may have been found: One scientist now points to a trio of agents working in concert: volcanic activity, ancient microbes and an oxygen-depleted atmosphere
The new theory may explain why there's a string of gold beds in the Witwatersrand basin, near Johannesburg, South Africa, that collectively make up 40 percent of all of the gold that has ever been, or ever will be, dug out of the ground, said study author Christoph Heinrich, a geologist at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
"The single biggest gold deposit in that string of deposits is still like three times bigger than the next biggest single gold deposit," called the Muruntau gold deposit.
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I always wonder who gets to stake the claim. I would think average joe's would have no power if we discovered something like this on our own. A rich tycoon would just find ways to justify taking the claim.
 
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