Transportation of gold
What we're discussing here is the Geochemistry of gold. Gold very much spreads out in many ways besides in metallic form and one of them is ionic. Go to a University library and pull the book "The Geochemistry of gold and its deposits" Geological Survey Bulletin 280 by R.W. Boyle 1979.
Chapter IV entitled "Oxidation and Secondary enrichment of gold deposits". Or go to google and type in "Secondary enrichment of gold" or "Supergene gold". This is what forms "pocket gold" the old time prospectors were always after.
Now whether this ionic gold makes it into the air I dunno and if I get the chance I'll sit down and write a Geochemist or you can too.
We can theorize till we all die from Al Gore's Global Warming,but we need to contact someone who works in the field of Geochemistry. But yes gold very much spreads out that's why we use Geochemical Exploration (remember the Purple cassias test for the quantity of gold in soil?) means to trace gold back to it's source. I have taken "grab samples" of soil and sent them in to an Assayer for analysis. If you're not familiar with the term "Grab sample" google it. There's some good papers on Economic Geology. If we study up on these things it will further our ability to come up with better ways to detect gold or whatever metal as far as science will allow us.
Randy
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