Hi Qiaozhi,
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Originally Posted by Qiaozhi
I guess we've spent so much time battling with the controversial side of remote sensing that I'd forgotten the original definition.
So- does anyone really know whether this stuff works or not?
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I was actually surprised to find so much information on these methods to locate deep buried gold, and the amount of research that went into the MMI methods, as well as into the study of strange microbes transforming metals deep in the ground. I was even more surprised that nobody in this forum seems to know much about this.
Apparently there is a lot of money driving this research. In the MMI survey industry, the driving force is primarily mining exploration that expects to get a good return on their investment. Some of these mines spend over $60,000 USD for a MMI survey, and expect a return much greater. MMI methods are also used to determine the presence of certain desirable minerals in the soil for agricultural purposes, to show what kind of soil additives would be helpful.
The money driving the research into microbes is much larger. These metal-digesting microbes have been found in rock matrix over 2 miles deep within mines. There is a good deal of support from mining companies all over the world. There is also a large investment into this research by government agencies who want to develop methods for waste cleanup and contamination control. They discovered certain of these microbes can process nuclear waste materials to keep them from becoming soluble, and others that can help in containing other toxic heavy metal contaminants in the soil. The real bulk of the research is about microbes that survive and thrive in environments that don't generally support life, and process these toxic materials in ways to make them environmentally safe. In the path of all this research, researchers discovered microbes that survive in toxic gold chloride and other gold complexes that are found in the soil as well as in a laboratory. The million references I found on gold-processing microbes are only a small by-product of the larger body of research.
What surprises me is that nobody in this forum has ever mentioned anything about these microbes or the mining companies who look for the presence of certain kinds of gold-digesting microbes to locate gold. This method has been going on for years.
This thread may have all started out as a joke about Mineoro's claims that gold ions hover in the air above buried gold, but it lead to a large body of research that demonstrates and documents subterranean gold processing.
It appears to me the subterranean gold ion methods used today are in their infancy. It seems that chemical and/or electronic improvements can and will be made to make better use of what the researchers have discovered. There is no fake science in these studies. It is all understandable and can be improved with real electronics and physics.
Best wishes,
J_P