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.

Geologists have known for decades that gold forms in quartz with the help of earthquakes, but now they have worked out exactly how the setting and seismic waves combine to form large nuggets.

In the growing fine minerals market, such crystalline gold specimens often sell for far more than the value of the gold by ...

Interestingly enough, earthquakes have the ability to cause quartz to form large gold nuggets, a fact that has been well-known among scientists for decades. What has managed to elude them for just ...

Gold focused exploration at the Olivers Patch prospect has revealed specimen gold and visible gold-in-vein quartz within an 8km trend identified by historic exploration.

Dissolved gold The largest gold nuggets are often found in places where fluids flow through faults in rock during earthquakes. This creates veins of quartz that can contain gold.

Geologists have known for decades that gold forms in quartz with the help of earthquakes, but now they have worked out exactly how the setting and seismic waves combine to form large nuggets.

Gold focused exploration at the Olivers Patch prospect has revealed specimen gold and visible gold-in-vein quartz within an 8km trend identified by historic exploration.