“This could explain large gold nugget formation.” Voisey built an apparatus that mechanically strains quartz crystals submerged in a gold-containing solution. After months of trial and ...

Gold nuggets have long fascinated scientists and prospectors alike, but the precise mechanisms that lead to their formation have remained elusive. Traditionally found in quartz veins deep ...

Earthquakes may cause gold nuggets to form in quartz by generating an electric field that attracts gold dissolved in fluid forced up from deep underground. Enormous gold nuggets are often ...

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 ...

In a paper published Monday in Nature Geoscience, geologists in Australia write that piezoelectricity is the secret to quartz-produced nuggets of gold. Piezoelectric materials are solids that ...

White gold and yellow gold are both timeless and similarly priced, so which one you choose will largely depend on your style preferences. In this post, we’ll give you all the info you need to ...

Geologists understand this process quite well, but large gold nuggets have been a bit of a mystery. Gold is only dissolved in natural fluids at around one part per million, so how does it ...

A treasure hunter struggling with faulty equipment has unearthed a gold nugget believed to be the ... road/ railway line and has remnants of Welsh stone within,” auctioneer Jones said, adding: ...

This large gold ... the nugget came to be in the field in Shropshire, but an old track or road and a railway line are thought to have run through the farmland. The site also contains stone ...