Antarctica is not just a common ice floe that is melting because of our gas emissions, it is also a continent dotted with volcanoes, some of which are still active. In the West and the Marie Byrd Land region, there are more than a hundred, for example. Among the dozen or so still active, only three have really gone crazy by erupting in the recent history of humanity. One of them is Mount Erebus. Culminating at an altitude of 3,794 meters, it is located on Ross Island. If lava has been flowing continuously since 1972, it is the side of the gases and smoke that it emits that scientists have looked at to make an incredible discovery: the volcano is ejecting gold.
We’ll stop you right now, Mount Erebus doesn’t send 24-karat gold bars into the sky. According to the scientific magazine IFLScience, experts discovered in these gases microparticles of metallic gold no larger than 20 micrometers (that’s 0.02 millimeters, that’s small). Better yet, they estimated that the volcano spewed into the atmosphere and onto the ground no less than 80 grams of gold per day. Comparing with the price of gold, we arrive at a minimum sum of 5,000 euros per day. This volcano definitely has no awareness of what fixed rate savings or investments are. According to another scientific site, AGU Publications, traces of this gold were even found more than 1,000 km from the volcano, probably carried away by the wind. We can only hope that this gold dust reaches our bank accounts directly.
