really large gold nugget formation. We didn’t know how that worked—how you get a large volume of gold to mineralize in one discreet little place.” Quartz can generate electrical charges ...

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 ...

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 ...

Solid gold bars stacked in bank vaults, plating on the summer’s Olympic medals, or even your own pieces of gold jewelry ... gold nugget deposits might develop in only some cracks in quartz ...

The findings explain how fluids carrying meager amounts of gold can concoct large nuggets, even in chemically inert settings. “You find a 2-meter-wide quartz vein, and there’s a big gold ...

Gold nuggets have long fascinated treasure hunters and geologists alike, often found gleaming within quartz veins deep ...

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 ...

On a slope called Bulldog Gully, an enormous piece of gold encased in quartz was buried just below the surface. It was so big, that as Mr Deason wrote "I tried to prise the nugget up with the pick ...