According to foreign media, Mount Erebus in Antarctica is completely different from other volcanoes on Earth._x000D_
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The world’s southernmost active volcano not only has a permanent lava lake, but it is also the only volcano that spews tiny crystals of pure gold into the atmosphere._x000D_
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In this regard, a study was published in Geophysical Research Letters in 1991, according to which Mount Erebus emits about 80 grams of microscopic gold crystals every day._x000D_
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Scientists believe that gold rises into the atmosphere in hot volcanic gases that bind with chlorine or sulfur-rich compounds. As the gases cool, the gold separates and forms crystals._x000D_
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However, Mount Erebus behaves differently from other volcanoes and this is a mystery that remains to be solved._x000D_
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Researchers have proposed two possible explanations for this: one is that the gold crystallizes directly from chlorine-rich volcanic gases that cool and crystallize, but scientists say this is unlikely because the gases contain very little gold._x000D_
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While the other is that the crystals slowly grow on the surface of the volcano’s lava lake before being lifted into the air with the volcanic gases._x000D_
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More than three decades have passed since this discovery, scientists still do not know exactly how Mount Erebus creates and excretes its microscopic gold crystals.
