Sulfur radical species form gold deposits on Earth | PNAS
Nov 03, 2015· gold; sulfur; ore deposit; hydrothermal fluid; trisulfur ion; The formation of gold deposits on Earth requires aqueous fluids that extract gold from minerals and magmas and transport and precipitate the metal as economic concentrations in ores that are three to six orders of magnitude larger than the Au mean content (∼0.001 ppm) of common crustal and mantle rocks (1 ...