Scientists discover gold-detecting fungi Down Under: Scientists have found a strain of fungus near Boddington in Western Australia that dissolves and precipitates gold on its surface, moving it closer to the Earth’s surface, researchers said in a paper for Nature Communications, according to The Scientist. “Gold is so chemically inactive that this interaction is both unusual and surprising,” lead researcher Dr Tsing Bohu told the Australian press. Bohu and his team stumbled upon this new type of fungi, Fusarium oxysporum, while looking into the cause of high gold oxidation in the so-called Golden Triangle Gold Prospect.

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