Scientists grow gold

[Ramjet]

http://inhabitat.com/scientists-use...e-24k-gold/liquid-gold-super-bacteria-nugget/

 

[Jaros]

Nice nugget if it's real??? :/

 

[AtomRat]

Depending on how big that pic is of the nugget.. its a great step forwards for science and technology, but terrible news for us. I just hope they cannot create enough to make it a production and wipe prospecting off the table. Are we going to be prospecting just gold chloride salts in the future

 

[Paydirt]

The nugget is a ring in. I love science

 

[Magilla]

Turns "liquid gold" into 24K gold and liquid gold is only $3000 an oz.

 

[Paydirt]

Cant say there is too much toxic AuCl out there in the environmentthat actually needs cleaning up

 

[Big Nugget]

It would be extremely expensive to duplicate the process on a larger scale, so instead Brown said that the work should be used to raise questions about greed, economy and environmental impact, focusing on the ethics related to science and the engineering of nature.

Few :8 had me worried there for a minute

 

[nuggetino]

Was about to ask how expensive gold chloride is but have my answer. Very interesting experiment. Good thing it's still a way more expensive process than finding natural gold nuggets.

 

[yobskin]

A scientist did a gold growing experiment at prophet mine few years back...

 

[flashhunter]

the gold they produced is actually in the 3rd picture not much at all, no nugget thats for sure.
Could this be the way gold forms naturally in the ground in some places??

 

[stevo]

Didn't Hitler have scientists experiment with alchemy back during WW2 trying to make gold? thought I read that somewhere.

 

[Jaros]

He had Cupriavidus metallidurans on the brain and up his @#%e.