The idea that gold nuggets appear because of electricity instead ... says Iain Pitcairn, an ore geologist at Stockholm University in Sweden and who was not involved with the new work.

Findings suggest gold nuggets can form in quartz veins as a result ... piezoelectricity for the mineral processing of the gold ore," he said. "Processing gold ore right now can be fairly expensive ...

Gold naturally forms in quartz — the second-most abundant mineral in Earth's crust after feldspar. But unlike other types of gold deposits, those found in quartz often cluster into giant nuggets ...

However, a new study published last week in Nature Geoscience details precisely how the seismic waves form the coveted nuggets, helping to solve a long-standing mystery about how gold can cluster ...

The stress and strain produced by moving tectonic plates during such an event may trigger a chemical reaction that causes minuscule particles of gold to coalesce into larger nuggets, a new study ...

Vertex Minerals is revolutionising gold processing at its Hill End project in New South Wales by integrating TOMRA Mining’s ...

“It has been estimated that all of the Gold ever mined could fit in a cube measuring roughly 22 meters (72 feet) in each direction. Very little remains in a natural nugget state, with the vast ...

But how exactly concentrated nuggets of gold may have formed here ... used piezoelectricity for the mineral processing of the ...