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

Previously, the prevailing theory was that gold was carried by hot fluids flowing through fractures in rock. However, considering that the dissolved gold concentration is usually very small, this ...

An amateur gold prospector stumbles upon a rock containing kilos of gold in Victoria thanks to a cheap detector.

We can't usually feel them, but dozens of earthquakes occur every day—and some of them are using mundane minerals to make glittering gold. Researchers have found that tectonic shifts put just the ...

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 large ...

Assays pending on 7 additional drill holes, all which intercepted quartz veining, including 8 incidents of visible gold in quartz veins VANCOUVER, May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - KORE Mining Ltd. (TSXV: ...