“Don’t let fool’s gold fool you,” scientists say A team of researchers from Curtin University, the University of Western Australia, and the China University of Geoscience have discovered that tiny […] Topics In a paper published in the journal Geology, the scientists present an in-depth analysis to better understand the mineralogical location of the trapped gold in pyrite. This review — they believe — may lead to more environmentally friendly gold extraction methods. According to the group, this new type of ‘invisible’ gold has not been previously recognized and is only observable using a scientific instrument called an atom probe.