NOTES

NOTES

08 02 2020

Cusco, Peru
Osma Harvilahti

As I stand captivated by the beauty I am facing, I trace over the gold ring on my index finger. I heard a few years back that the total amount of undiscovered gold left on earth would only be able to fill up a single Olympic-size swimming pool, and it would all be dug up in a matter of a decade. When I visited Peru ten years ago, the Ausangate Rainbow Mountains didn’t exist yet. Well, in actuality, they were there but were still covered in thick snow and ice. Unveiled to the world due to the global warming ice-melting which began around 2015, the mountains are striped with candy-like colors ranging from pink, turquoise, lavender to gold. The coloration is due to various environmental conditions and mineral oxidizing over the years.

 

The gold in my ring is also made from years of formed energy in nature. We’ve discovered a way to create diamonds, but man-made gold is still considered impossible. In 2017, an international group of scientists established that gold reached Earth’s surface from the mantle layer of the planet by volcanic eruptions carrying small fragments of gold. The Ausangate Rainbow Mountains somehow reminds me of the red dust on Mars. Speculating from the researchers’ theory, it’s possible that other planets like Mars have gold hidden in its mantle layers, waiting to be discovered.

As I stand captivated by the beauty I am facing, I trace over the gold ring on my index finger. I heard a few years back that the total amount of undiscovered gold left on earth would only be able to fill up a single Olympic-size swimming pool, and it would all be dug up in a matter of a decade. When I visited Peru ten years ago, the Ausangate Rainbow Mountains didn’t exist yet. Well, in actuality, they were there but were still covered in thick snow and ice. Unveiled to the world due to the global warming ice-melting which began around 2015, the mountains are striped with candy-like colors ranging from pink, turquoise, lavender to gold. The coloration is due to various environmental conditions and mineral oxidizing over the years.

 

The gold in my ring is also made from years of formed energy in nature. We’ve discovered a way to create diamonds, but man-made gold is still considered impossible. In 2017, an international group of scientists established that gold reached Earth’s surface from the mantle layer of the planet by volcanic eruptions carrying small fragments of gold. The Ausangate Rainbow Mountains somehow reminds me of the red dust on Mars. Speculating from the researchers’ theory, it’s possible that other planets like Mars have gold hidden in its mantle layers, waiting to be discovered.