Quartz, which can generate electricity, attracts large chunks of gold when stressed and squeezed by seismic shaking, ...

The pressure created by earthquakes could trigger quartz veins to generate enough electricity to form large nuggets of gold, ...

For decades, most who asked have accepted a simple story for how these prized objects form, but the truth may be much more ...

The strain imparted by an earthquake can generate voltages in quartz veins that stimulate the mineralization of gold.

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 large chunks of Earth’s squashed-up ...

Interestingly enough, earthquakes have the ability to cause quartz to form large gold nuggets, a fact that has been ...

Geologists have known for decades that gold forms in quartz with the help of earthquakes, but now they have worked out ...