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title: "Where did Gold come from?"  
description: "A brief explanation about the origin of gold and its interesting facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-10-26  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/3019/where-did-gold-come-from  
category: "space science"  
tags: ["gold", "science", "earth", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Where did Gold come from?

![Where did Gold come from](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4e9a1b04-b892-4e0e-b025-8de041d34f1a/images/a0cb7fb4-0acd-4b91-8ff8-980bac0ebc71.jpeg) ![Where did Gold come from](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4e9a1b04-b892-4e0e-b025-8de041d34f1a/images/50b4a5aa-d218-43b3-b3e2-dab1ddd80635.jpeg) Gold is believed to have been transported by asteroid impacts during the Late Heavy Bombardment around 4 billion years ago due to Earth's molten state ![Where did Gold come from](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4e9a1b04-b892-4e0e-b025-8de041d34f1a/images/58cfb097-4a27-4531-8ecd-889c919a519c.jpeg) Furthermore, gold is said to have been produced in two possible theories: ![Where did Gold come from](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4e9a1b04-b892-4e0e-b025-8de041d34f1a/images/6101b4da-ccb3-4f94-a93f-236031253cf4.jpeg) First, supernova nucleosynthesis happens when a big star dies, producing high heat and pressure in its core to fuse lighter elements, including gold. ![Where did Gold come from](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4e9a1b04-b892-4e0e-b025-8de041d34f1a/images/88e52cf9-3e1e-430d-a065-77cfe70c56c1.jpeg) Second, when two neutron stars, the collapsed cores of enormous stars, meet, they can produce gold, culminating in a gamma-ray burst. ![Where did Gold come from](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4e9a1b04-b892-4e0e-b025-8de041d34f1a/images/f21f3e62-3427-4de1-a854-dbd7d28d189c.jpeg) Gold is a rare element, naturally created in the Earth's crust through geological processes, but its abundance is substantially lower than asteroids.

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