Using an 'atom probe', Curtin University researchers have uncovered a new way real gold atoms can hide in 'fool's gold' crystals. bit.ly/3dieuYu

Not so foolish after all: 'fool's gold' contains a newly discovered type of real gold theconversation.com/not-so-foolish… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

‘Fool’s Gold’ not so foolish after all. Curtin University’s Dr Denis Fougerouse discusses how #pyrite could be more valuable than we think, hosting tiny amounts of #gold hidden to the human eye. Read more: bit.ly/3haWjoN #CurtinResearch Australian Research Council

More publicity on our last article. Pyrite, the gift that keeps on giving! Mining – Fool’s gold is a good source of the real stuff economist.com/science-and-te…

The solar wind as a source of water for airless bodies? H2O/OH enrichment in the rim of a Solar wind-irradiated grain from asteroid #Itokawa would seem to suggest so. Luke Daly et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Super excited that our latest paper is now out in Nature Astronomy which suggests that a wee bit of Earths #oceans may have come from an unlikely source: the #Sun! In the form of solar wind irradiated tiny dust grains nature.com/articles/s4155…

Was the #Sun a likely source of #Earth’s water?☀️ New @CurtinSpaceSci research reveals how and why the discovery could help future #space missions. Read more: bit.ly/3d1QEzL #CurtinResearch

We had fun writing this piece. Amazing minerals and amazing geological processes! Perfectly imperfect: the discovery of the second-largest pink diamond has left the world in awe. What gives diamonds their colour? theconversation.com/perfectly-impe… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Did you know that zircons crystalised during the Chernobyl power plant reactor meltdown? More 👇 Chernobyl was history's worst nuclear disaster. Now it's teaching geologists about the history of our planet via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/chernobyl-was-…

Great piece of work from legend Luc Doucet, linking ore deposits, the evolution of the mantle, the crust and how to use it all for U-Pb geochronology - just wow! The global lead isotope system: Toward a new framework sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Earth Dynamics Research Group Timescales of Mineral Systems Group

Like diamonds? Check this out! nature.com/articles/s4146…).

American Mineralogist: Melt-mediated re-equilibration of zircon produced during meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor doi.org/10.2138/am-202… Fougerouse et al. determine a mechanism by which the composition of zircon crystals can be changed by interacting with a melt.