Gold has always been a hot commodity. 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 ...

Spark of Gold Electric currents in the Earth may be responsible for the formation of gold nuggets, new research suggests. As detailed in a new study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience ...

What gold does do on Earth is gather, or precipitate, into larger deposits and nuggets. That happens both in volcanoes, as you describe, as well as through the mechanism described in the article ...

Scientists reveal that earthquakes generate electricity in quartz, explaining how enormous gold nuggets grow in deep rock fractures.

In the growing fine minerals market, such crystalline gold specimens often sell for far more than the value of the gold by ...

The largest nuggets in orogenic gold deposits—those that form between tectonic plates that have crashed together to create mountain ranges—weigh about 130 pounds, reports Live Science.

Gold nuggets have long fascinated treasure hunters and geologists alike, often found gleaming within quartz veins deep underground. Yet the exact process behind the formation of these deposits ...

Electric currents in the Earth may be responsible for the formation of gold nuggets, new research suggests. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the theory could ...