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Gold cycle (Biogeochemical cycle 🔄)
The gold cycle is the biogeochemical cycling of gold through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. Gold is a noble transition metal that is highly mobile in the environment and subject to biogeochemical cycling, driven largely by microorganisms. Gold undergoes processes of solubilization, stabilization, bioreduction, biomineralization, aggregation, and ligan...