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 ...

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

So, gold in quartz veins will solidify into clusters that grow bigger every time an earthquake occurs. To date, the largest orogenic gold nuggets weigh approximately 130 pounds.

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 ...

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 ...

Gold-rich nugget zones are often located in tectonically active regions, supporting this unique electrogenic mechanism. Christopher Voisey concludes that these findings, though surprising, open up new ...

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.

For decades, researchers have known that earthquakes, quartz, and gold were linked—nearly 75% of gold circulating today came from nuggets originally embedded in quartz deposits near faults.

But this theory doesn't explain why large—sometimes hundred-pound—gold nuggets accumulate within quartz veins; there simply isn't enough gold in Earth's upper layers to create massive chunks ...

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 ...

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 ...