Seawater is mostly water but contains 3.5% dissolved salts, including sodium chloride. It is a different environment from freshwater, and many animals cannot adapt to living in both. Seawater contains various salts, including calcium chloride, sulfates, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and minor constituents. Extracting uranium or gold from seawater has not been economically viable. The salts […]
While there is an estimated eight million tons of gold dissolved in the world’s oceans, the actual concentration of gold in seawater is only about 0.0000000006%, making it uneconomical to extract using any current technology. Gold is rare and unreactive, and large quantities of seawater would have to be evaporated to concentrate it sufficiently to […]
