{"id":47495,"date":"2024-07-02T17:48:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47495"},"modified":"2024-07-02T17:48:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:48:37","slug":"mining-is-there-a-connection-between-fools-gold-and-real-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/mining-is-there-a-connection-between-fools-gold-and-real-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining: is there a connection between fool&#8217;s gold and real gold?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about mining: the tutor looks into an interesting coincidence.<\/h2>\n<p>\nFool&#8217;s gold, FeS<sub>2<\/sub>, is also known as pyrite. It&#8217;s not gold, nor particularly valuable&#8230;yet, should it be dismissed?<\/p>\n<p>\nIt turns out that gold deposits and fool&#8217;s gold can develop in similar situations. Therefore, where one finds fool&#8217;s gold, it may suggest that real gold is present as well.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/pyrite-real-gold.html#:~:text=Yet%20pyrite%20and%20gold%20form,%2C%20according%20to%20previous%20research..\">livescience.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commonminerals.esci.umn.edu\/minerals-o-s\/pyrite#:~:text=Although%20no%20longer%20considered%20a,that%20do%20have%20significant%20value.\">commonminerals.esci.umn.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/earthscience.stackexchange.com\/questions\/2393\/why-do-gold-deposits-form-only-in-certain-areas-of-the-earth\">earthscience.stackexchange.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/earthworks.org\/issues\/acid-mine-drainage\/\">earthworks.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about mining: the tutor looks into an interesting coincidence. Fool&#8217;s gold, FeS2, is also known as pyrite. It&#8217;s not gold, nor particularly valuable&#8230;yet, should it be dismissed? It turns out that gold deposits and fool&#8217;s gold can develop in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/mining-is-there-a-connection-between-fools-gold-and-real-gold\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mining: is there a connection between fool&#8217;s gold and real gold?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3214],"tags":[3222,3223],"class_list":["post-47495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mining","tag-fools-gold","tag-gold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47501,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47495\/revisions\/47501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}