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 the time ...

Christopher Voisey receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia. Humanity’s fascination with gold stretches back thousands of years.

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 ...

When strained by earthquakes, underground networks of quartz veins can generate enough voltage to snatch gold from passing fluids, researchers report September 2 in Nature Geoscience. The findings ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A recent study shows that earthquakes can trigger the formation of large gold nuggets within quartz veins in just a few seconds. This finding was published by a team of scientists ...

The Golden Beauty was found in 1979 and is close to 7.5 inches wide. The shiny behemoth known as the “Golden Beauty” was found in 1979 the Kalgoorlie Goldfields in Western Australia by John and ...

An amateur gold prospector stumbles upon a rock containing kilos of gold in Victoria thanks to a cheap detector.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — With shows like “Gold Rush”, ...

The world’s biggest gold nugget ever found weighs as much as an adult man and it is a gold miner’s absolute dream. For people hoping to invest their fortune, gold has typically been a reliable ...