This creates veins of quartz that can contain gold. It takes hundreds or thousands of earthquakes to create a deposit, so the quartz crystals in veins may experience thousands of episodes of stress.

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 ...

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.

According to the researchers, while the “dominant” gold-bearing compounds in orogenic quartz-vein fluids are Au(HS) 2 – and Au(HS) 0, a reaction that causes AuCl 4 – to gain electrons will ...

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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 ...