Christopher Voisey receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia. Humanity’s fascination with gold stretches back thousands of years.

Does gold hide where tectonic plates collide? In a recent study, scientists reveal how earthquakes shape valuable nuggets. A surprising link between gold and electricity is sparking new geological ...

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 ...

Gold is only dissolved in natural fluids at around one part per million (representational). Humanity's fascination with gold stretches back thousands of years. Gold mining is described in ancient ...

Scientists think they may have worked out how earthquakes can produce big chunks of gold. Gold can be formed naturally underground in cracks within rocks containing a mineral called quartz - but ...

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 ...

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 ...