dlbres10@pc.usl.edu (Fraering Philip) (06/15/91)
In article <BILLW.91Jun13025435@lager.cisco.com> 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