This piece of gold measures nearly 7.5 inches across and weighs more than 9 pounds. It ended up in a private Swiss collection ...

The idea that gold nuggets appear because of electricity instead ... But if you apply a force to a quartz crystal—stamp on it, say—then it generates an electric field. This phenomenon is ...

LEADVILLE, Colo. — The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum has had a busy summer, preparing its newest exhibit for the public. "It’s called Leadville Thirst for Gold and it just opened a ...

The largest gold nuggets are often found in places where ... We designed an experiment to replicate the “rattling” a quartz crystal would feel during an earthquake. Our experiments involved ...

Scientists have discovered exactly how earthquakes trigger quartz into forming large gold nuggets — finally solving a mystery that's puzzled researchers for decades. Gold naturally forms in ...

Even though people have been hunting for – and finding – gold nuggets in the Earth for hundreds of years, we haven’t stopped too often to ask how they’re formed in the first place.

But in reality, the nuggets only form in concentrated ... and gold is a conductor. Any gold that has formed on the crystal takes on the voltage from the quartz and acts like a magnet for ...

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