Research pays off in gold

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 07:42 in Physics & Chemistry

Why does gold occur where it does in the bedrock? If we understood that we would be able to make new finds also in areas where we had not looked for it. In his research into the Faeboliden gold deposit along the so-called Gold Line in Vaesterbotten in northern Sweden, Glenn Bark has studied the geological features that are important to the formation of gold deposits. What's more, the results are proving to be directly useful to the project's industrial partner and its current gold prospecting...

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