How precious metals were brought to Earth
and preserved in a magma ocean
By Keith Cooper, SpaceCom, October 13, 2023
[www.space.com]

New research offers a theory on how gold,
platinum, and other precious metals found
their way into Earth's mantle by Jim Shelton,
Yale University, PhysOrg, October 2023
[phys.org]

The paper is:

Korenaga, J. and Marchi, S., 2023. Vestiges of impact-driven
three-phase mixing in the chemistry and structure of Earth’s
mantle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(43), no.e2309181120.
[www.pnas.org]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)