Xref: utzoo misc.invest:13869 sci.space:31749 sci.astro:13828 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uunet!wuarchive!rex!rouge!dlbres10 From: dlbres10@pc.usl.edu (Fraering Philip) Newsgroups: misc.invest,sci.space,sci.astro Subject: Re: Gold Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 91 02:20:15 GMT References: <1991Jun11.055227.2611@nas.nasa.gov> <1991Jun11.213810.6897@sequent.com> Sender: news@rouge.usl.edu Followup-To: misc.invest Distribution: usa Organization: Univ. of Southwestern LA, Lafayette Lines: 17 In-reply-to: billw@lager.cisco.com's message of 13 Jun 91 07:54:35 GMT In article billw@lager.cisco.com (William ) writes: >Not to be negative, but this is about 0.0001% gold and .001% platinum. >Unless this is lying around in convient chunks (not very likely), the >fact that there is 20E6 miles of vacuum is only a small worry. (similar >to the oft repeated fact that each cubic mile of seawater contains $$$$ >in precious metals.) Eventually (hopefully?) such rocks will be mined >primarilly for their nickel/iron content... Until we check, we won't know whether or not the gold and other precious metals are differentiated or not. Are there any geophysicists (the inside the earth kind) that can tell us about differentiation? Phil Fraering dlbres10@pc.usl.edu