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 ...

The team wondered if this effect could be causing gold to clump together into nuggets, with the mechanical stress coming from earthquakes. To test the idea, the researchers submerged quartz ...

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 treasure hunters and geologists alike, often found gleaming within quartz veins deep ...

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 ...

The world’s biggest gold nugget ever ... encased in quartz, on a slope called Bulldog Gully. In notes from the time, Deason wrote: “I tried to prise the nugget up with the pick but the handle ...

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 ...