Gold nuggets may be the product of earthquakes repeatedly shaking the veins of quartz, thanks to the mineral’s unusual electrical properties. The idea is hard to prove, but evidence produced in the ...

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

As the quartz is repeatedly stressed by tectonic movements, over time this microscopic layer grows to form at first a network of gold crystals, and finally a larger gold nugget. This process could ...

The nugget weighs 64.8g (2oz), which is thought to be the largest ever found in England A gold nugget that is thought to be the largest found in England has failed to sell at auction. The 64.8g ...

Branch Mint Troemmer special bullion balance scale used from 1870-1893, is the most important numismatic artifact to sur ...

Jonathan Needham, 54, found the gold on the Staffordshire and Derbyshire border and believes it was formed naturally beneath the ground there. The nugget - shaped like England, Wales and Scotland ...

An amateur treasure hunter may have sparked a British gold rush - after unearthing a nugget in a farmer’s field. Detectorist Jonathan Needham found the UK-shaped nugget on the Staffordshire ...

Jonathan Needham, 54, found the gold on the Staffordshire and Derbyshire border - and believes it was formed naturally beneath the ground there. The nugget - shaped like England, Wales and ...

Those moves, somewhat contrary to historic narratives, have been accompanied by fresh record highs for gold. Meanwhile, though stocks have stalled in recent days their relative strength index (RSI ...

Geoff Robinson Photography Vince Thurkettle holding a nugget of gold - the ... and more likely to have the quartz and calcite veins from which grains of gold could be eroded.