The sky is clear....by 2040 we can spin straw into Gold De Woh

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https://www.mining.com/want-to-capi...-gold-price-you-could-be-in-business-by-2040/

Gold miners still have it relatively good compared to the likes of nickel and copper.

From discovery to flowing ounces takes almost 16 years.

What the world will look like in 2040 is anyone’s guess.

If AI pundits are to be believed, the technology would have progressed enough to spin straw into gold.

 

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Didn't you watch those cowboy might view. All you need is a pan and a clear river or stream to get them gold.

 

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• HISTORY & CULTURE

The sinister history of America's 'uranium gold rush'​

The success of the Manhattan Project sent demand for uranium skyrocketing, and enterprising prospectors went out West in search of an overnight fortune. But many were exposed to lethal radiation in the mines.

Two miners, both wearing hardhats, push a cart out of a uranium mine in Kern Countym California in 1955. To bolster its nuclear arsenal, the U.S. govern...Read More
Photograph by FPG, Getty Images
ByErin Blakemore
July 12, 2024

Armed with picks and shovels, the prospectors turned to the American West intent on finding deposits of the mineral that would make their fortunes. Their pursuit of wealth led to vast riches—and left ghost towns in its wake.

But the year wasn’t 1849, and the miners weren’t in search of gold. Instead, it was the 1950s, and they carried Geiger counters along with their shovels. They were part of the United States’ last big mineral rush—a forgotten race to find uranium deposits at the dawn of the nuclear age.

Uranium mining’s early days​

Uranium hadn’t always been a hot commodity: When a prospector found a deposit of yellow rock in Montrose County, Colorado in 1881, radioactivity hadn’t even been discovered yet.

Though uranium mines near the intersection of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah, now known as the Uravan Mineral Belt, were active in the early 20th century, but production was low and mining was mostly focused on radium and vanadium, elements also found in carnotite ore that is used in steel production.

Uranium ore from Daybreak Mine in Washington state. Once considered an cheap byproduct of mining radium and vanadium, uranium became highly so...Read More
Photograph by Bjoern Wylezich, Getty Images


By the dawn of the Second World War, uranium was still considered to be what historian Bernard Conway calls a “worthless byproduct of vanadium refinement.”

But that changed with the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to develop the world’s first nuclear weapons. Project scientists attempted to invent both a uranium bomb and one based on plutonium, an element that, they discovered, could be produced in a reactor fueled by uranium.

 

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CAn Shun Bian mine some Uranium de woh

 

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Cosmic nuclear fission seen for 1st time in 'incredibly profound' discovery​

News
By Robert Lea
published December 12, 2023
"As we’ve acquired more observations, the cosmos is saying 'hey, there’s a signature here, and it can only come from fission.'"


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The merger of two neutron stars, which is believed to create an environment so turbulent the heavy elements of the universe like gold can be forged here. (Image credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory (Matthew Mumpower))

Scientists have discovered the first indication of nuclear fission occurring amongst the stars. The discovery supports the idea that when neutron stars smash together, they create "superheavy" elements — heavier than the heaviest elements of the periodic table — which then break down via nuclear fission to birth elements like the gold in your jewelry.



Nuclear fission is basically the opposite of nuclear fusion. While nuclear fusion refers to the smashing of lighter elements to create heavier elements, nuclear fission is a process that sees energy released when heavy elements split apart to create lighter elements.

Nuclear fission is pretty well known, too. It's actually the basis of energy-generating nuclear power plants here on Earth — however, it had not been seen occurring amongst the stars before now.


"People have thought fission was happening in the cosmos, but to date, no one has been able to prove it," Matthew Mumpower, research co-author and a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, said in a statement.


The team of researchers led by North Carolina State University scientist Ian Roederer searched data concerning a wide range of elements in stars to discover the first evidence that nuclear fission could therefore be acting when neutron stars merge. These findings could help solve the mystery of where the universe's heavy elements come from.

 

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Gold​

Chrysopoeia, the artificial production of gold, is the traditional goal of alchemy. Such transmutation is possible in particle accelerators or nuclear reactors, although the production cost is estimated to be a trillion times the market price of gold. Since there is only one stable gold isotope, 197Au, nuclear reactions must create this isotope in order to produce usable gold.[4]

Gold was synthesized from mercury by neutron bombardment in 1941, but the isotopes of gold produced were all radioactive.[5] In 1924, a German scientist, Adolf Miethe, reported achieving the same feat, but after various replication attempts around the world, it was deemed an experimental error.[6][7][8]

In 1980, Glenn Seaborg transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. His experimental technique was able to remove protons and neutrons from the bismuth atoms. Seaborg's technique was far too expensive to enable the routine manufacture of gold but his work is the closest yet to emulating an aspect of the mythical Philosopher's stone.[9][10]

https://50years.gold.org/moment/11/seaborg’s-midas-touch

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/turning-lead-into-gold