This photo taken by Frank Andres shows the AB bubbles extracting metals from an ore rich in precious metals.
In a previous post, I described the work experience of Frank Andres and his discovery of a mysterious substance that produces AB bubbles, which purified a copper nugget and turned copper clear.
So what the heck are AB bubbles? Well, my friend, that is the million dollar question. Nobody really knows, which is the reason Frank has shared his discovery with the University of Idaho; he doesn’t have the expertise to figure it out on his own.
While I can’t tell you exactly what they are, I can tell you what they’ve been observed doing.
The bubbles can suck out trace amounts of precious metals from any object imaginable. For example, they have grown tendrils of precious metals by taking them out of pomegranates, grapes, iris flowers, cherry pits, blackberries and even Frank’s bathroom sink. The AB bubbles grow these long, colorful tendrils that are made up of different precious metals. Different metals produce different colored growths: blue, red, clear, amber, green or multi-colored.
Though these AB bubbles are tiny and wouldn’t be an efficient way of actually mining any type of metal, they are very adept at showing where to find deposits.
Imagine, if you will, a mining operation looking for the next big vein of gold, platinum, ruthenium or rhodium (the precious metals the AB bubbles are particularly fond of.) These bubbles could be used to locate and prove where the next best place to dig was located.
You may ask – as I certainly did – why it is these bubbles might be better at finding metals than current methods. The answer, according to Franklin Bailey, a research specialist in electron microscopy and Frank Andres’ colleague, may lie in the discovery of natural, “invisible” gold by an Australian researcher in the middle of 2008.
Rob Hough, lead author of the paper, discovered gold nanoparticles that, while invisible to most methods of detection, may be how gold accumulates in deposits throughout the world. Once discovered, Hough analyzed a sample of clay from the fracture surface. Though no gold was visible, the clay actually contained 59 parts-per-million of gold.
“The gold nanoparticles have not been identified earlier because they are transparent to electron beams and effectively invisible,” Dr Hough says. “However, they are probably a common form of gold in this type of natural environment worldwide, where saline water interacts with gold deposits. They also provide the first direct observation of the nanoscale mobility of gold during weathering.”
So that is what the AB bubbles do. The question of what they are and how they work, however, has yet to be answered. Franklin Bailey has some ideas, though, and Frank Andres’ theory will knock your socks off…
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