BEING a good gold digger is typically not a favourable reputation to have - unless you're a real-life prospector ... to the thrill of noticing a golden nugget - even when she's working in up ...

Gold nuggets have long fascinated scientists and ... although in order to translate understanding into real practical applications, we would need to know if there are any markers, detectable ...

Gold has always been a hot commodity. But these days, finding a nugget isn’t too tricky: Much of the world’s gold is mined from natural veins of quartz, a glassy mineral that streaks through ...

Gold naturally forms in quartz — the second-most abundant mineral in Earth's crust after feldspar. But unlike other types of gold deposits, those found in quartz often cluster into giant nuggets ...

However, a new study published last week in Nature Geoscience details precisely how the seismic waves form the coveted nuggets, helping to solve a long-standing mystery about how gold can cluster ...

Electric currents in the Earth may be responsible for the formation of gold nuggets, new research suggests. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the theory could ...

Seismic activity (i.e. earthquakes) may finally help solve the mystery behind the existence of large gold nuggets found beneath the Earth’s surface, a new study published in Nature Geosciences ...

Scientists have discovered exactly how earthquakes trigger quartz into forming large gold nuggets — finally solving a mystery that's puzzled researchers for decades. "Gold forms in quartz all ...