Everyone's heard of easy money schemes, but an Antarctic volcano that spews gold? Sounds a little far-fetched, no?

Mount Erebus, which joins Deception Island as the only two of 138 active volcanoes in Antarctica, is known for expelling pockets of gas containing roughly 80 grams of crystallized gold daily ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica. The tent is a four-cornered tepee ...

Mount Erebus: A fiery, active volcano in the land of ice. It is a behemoth soaring over 12,000 feet above the sea ice, and everywhere we went near McMurdo, the mighty volcano loomed. It is the ...

The world's highest volcano has been spewing out thousands of pounds worth of gold every day - leaving scientists baffled by the phenomenon. Mount Erebus, which stands 12,448ft tall in Antarctica ...

And a gold rush is unlikely either. Mount Erebus is raining gold on Earth. Yes, indeed, this volcano that is present in Antarctica is spewing out gold, among a number of other materials ...

Tucked in among the glaciers, fiery Mount Erebus is the southernmost active volcano on Earth, providing a bit of heat amid the frozen landscape. The frozen continent features 138 volcanoes ...

The continent, divided east to west by the Transantarctic Mountains, includes volcanic giants such as Mount Erebus and its iconic lava lake. But at least 100 less conspicuous volcanoes dot ...

Antarctica's western ice sheet alone contains 138 volcanos. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Antarctica is perhaps best ...

C. U.) and Dr. H. Janetschek had the opportunity in February 1962 to climb Mount Erebus. Considered the only active volcano known in Antarctica, Mount Erebus (3,721 m) consists of trachyte ...