The world’s biggest gold nugget ever found weighs as much as an adult man and it is a gold miner’s absolute dream. For people hoping to invest their fortune, gold has typically been a reliable ...

Gold has always been a hot commodity. But these days, finding a nugget isn’t too tricky: Much of the world’s gold is mined from natural veins of quartz, a glassy mineral that streaks through ...

The largest nuggets in orogenic gold deposits—those that form between tectonic plates that have crashed together to create mountain ranges—weigh about 130 pounds, reports Live Science.

The largest gold nugget ever discovered was “Welcome Stranger,” found in Australia in 1869 weighing 156.6 pounds. It was split into fragments and split between 17 miners, according to the BBC.

A triceratop’s nasal horn, fossilized horse skull, and a 10-pound golden nugget uncovered by a couple using a metal detector over 40 years ago are only some of the rarities set for auction on ...

Larger nuggets were hard to explain: experts had theorized that gold nanoparticles within the fluid might aggregate into those bigger chunks within the quartz, yet it was unclear how.

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 short: Findings suggest gold nuggets can form in quartz veins as a result of electricity produced by the pressure of earthquakes. The gold is carried in super-hot liquids from the Earth's core ...

C.R. Voisey et al. Gold nugget formation from earthquake-induced piezoelectricity in quartz. Nature Geoscience. Published online September 2, 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41561-024-01514-1.

WA's Goldfields have proved irresistible to many for more than a century, but a recent lucrative find has sparked renewed interest and a largely untapped tourism market is emerging as a result.