Gold Erupts From Hawaiian Volcanoes, Scientists Discover

There's gold in them thar hills—or, at least, in the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands —along with other precious metals.

This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers who found evidence that metals are leaking from Earth's core into the mantle, before being erupted at the surface.

"When the results first came in, we realized that we had literally struck gold," said paper author and geochemist Nils Messling of Göttingen University, Germany, in a statement.

"Our data confirmed that material from the core—including gold and other precious metals—is leaking into Earth's mantle above."

According to the researchers, more than 99.999 percent of Earth's total reserves of gold and other precious metals lie within our planet's metallic core—buried beneath some 1,864 miles