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

Then, they mimicked seismic waves by placing the slabs into a machine that simulated the shaky motion of an earthquake. Afterward, they checked the quartz and found gold along its surface.

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 ...

Gold nuggets grow much bigger than they should – and electricity produced by earthquakes may be the reason why.

Geologists Say Quartz And Few Earthquakes Can Make A Giant Gold Nugget During seismic activity, the stress on quartz can generate piezoelectric voltages capable of drawing gold from these fluids.

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This means that in quartz veins, gold solidifies into clusters that grow bigger with each earthquake. The largest orogenic gold nuggets found to date weigh around 130 pounds (60 kilograms), Voisey ...

Earthquakes may help prospectors strike gold: When these seismic events stir and squeeze quartz veins deep underground, the mineral creates an electric field that gold particles clump to, forming ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Humanity's fascination with Gold stretches back thousands of years. gold mining is described in ancient Greek and Roman sources, and gold rushes – especially in the ...

This means that in quartz veins, gold solidifies into clusters that grow bigger with each earthquake. The largest orogenic gold nuggets found to date weigh around 130 pounds (60 kilograms), Voisey ...

Take a vein of quartz, add a few thousand earthquakes Published: September 2, 2024 4:22pm EDT. Christopher Voisey, Monash University. Author. Christopher Voisey ...