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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Michigan researchers may have found a new geological mechanism for creating gold deposits on Earth. This new theory ...

of how the precious metal came to be available in disparate forms, and how some gold-ore deposits might have been formed.

The study focuses on how gold formed and moved within the Sawayaerdun gold deposit in northwest China, a large orogenic system shaped by long periods of burial, deformation and heating. Before any ...

Earthquakes may cause gold nuggets to form in quartz by generating an electric field that attracts gold dissolved in fluid forced up from deep underground. Enormous gold nuggets are often associated ...

Solid gold bars stacked in bank vaults, plating on the summer’s Olympic medals, or even your own pieces of gold jewelry could owe their existence to earthquakes. The stress and strain produced by ...