Geology lesson: Why are so many gold mines rusting.

Geology lesson: Why are so many gold mines rusting.

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“Dan Hurd”

It seams like every old gold mine is covered in an orange or red smelly material, what is it, and why. Here is your geology lesson of the day, why are all gold mines rusting?

This is a re-upload as I had to delete the first one and fix a mistake in the chemical formula. (Iron Oxide is Fe2o3,…

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