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Yep you need a neutron star or black hole collision I think to make the initial gold from more basic “elements” :-)
Or a particle accelerator, some bismuth, and low expectations of quantities.
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Lots of reasons to not be a producer of metals. If you find any material in California good luck - its more than a 25 year process to open a new mine, including payoffs to various politicians and an endless environmental review process.
"its more than a 25 year process to open a new mine" For massive lode and pit operations for major corporations, sure. I own four agate mines and one manganese minein the Mojave. It costs not much at all if you're a small miner.
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Or a particle accelerator, some bismuth, and low expectations of quantities.
I thought I remembered a method using radioactive mercury instead, but yeah, not really fun times.
"""In 1980, he transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth-209 into gold (197 Au) at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. His experimental technique, using the lab's Bevalac particle accelerator, was able to remove protons and neutrons from the bismuth atoms by bombarding it with carbon and neon nuclei traveling near the speed of light.[47] Seaborg's technique would have been far too expensive to enable routine manufacturing of gold, but his work was close to the mythical Philosopher's Stone.[48][49] As gold has four fewer protons and (taking the only naturally occurring bulk isotopes of either) eight fewer neutrons than bismuth, a total of twelve nucleons have to be removed from the bismuth nucleus to produce gold using Seaborg's method."""
the building where plutonium was first synthesized still exists ont he berkeley campus although IIRC they had to clean it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilman_Hall#Room_307
Then Japan should be a a major gold producer, but is not.
Lots of reasons to not be a producer of metals. If you find any material in California good luck - its more than a 25 year process to open a new mine, including payoffs to various politicians and an endless environmental review process.
Considering what mining tends to do to the surrounding environment, I say good for California.
Then Japan should be a a major gold producer, but is not.
Lots of reasons to not be a producer of metals. If you find any material in California good luck - its more than a 25 year process to open a new mine, including payoffs to various politicians and an endless environmental review process.
We went all the way to magnitude –2,” Weatherley says — an earthquake so small, he adds, that it involves a slip of only about 130 micrometres along a mere 90 centimetres of the fault zone. “You still get a pressure drop of 50%,” he notes. Interesting. Is there a rough rule of thumb that translates magnitude into slip size and length?
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Seems like a lot of work. What if I just make boron instead? Everyone likes boron.
its the name. boron sounds like a combination of boring and moron. who wants boron?