Jeweler Olivia Kazanjian inspects gold jewelry owned by client Rosie Juda, who brought nearly 40 pieces that she was hoping to melt amid skyrocketing gold prices. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times) ...

Gold is a precious metal that has always fascinated humans. From Priam’s Treasure to the legend of El Dorado, gold —regarded as the noblest of metals— has been a symbol of splendour and wealth in many ...

On a weekday afternoon in February, Josh Morelock, the general manager of Gold Refinery of San Diego, scooped glinty gold objects from a bowl and placed them into smelter fired up to 2,000 degrees ...

Physicists have heated gold to over 19,000 Kelvin, more than 14 times its melting point, without melting it, smashing the long-standing “entropy catastrophe” limit. Using an ultra-fast laser pulse at ...

Scientists have identified hydrous, multi-stage mantle melting beneath island arcs as the key process enriching gold in magmas. Research on volcanic glass from the Kermadec Arc shows repeated ...

The first step in gold’s journey does not happen in a mine, a fault, or a hydrothermal vent. It begins far deeper, in mantle rock melting beneath the seafloor. That is the picture emerging from new ...

Gold nanoparticles' have unique properties, which make them relevant in catalysis, biomedicine, and optics. These properties dramatically change depending on whether the nanoparticles, and their ...

The team analysed 66 glass samples from the ocean floor along the Kermadec island arc, and the adjacent Havre Trough north of New Zealand, a statement read.