Christopher Voisey receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia. Humanity’s fascination with gold stretches back thousands of years.

For decades, researchers have known that earthquakes, quartz, and gold were linked—nearly 75% of gold circulating today came from nuggets originally embedded in quartz deposits near faults. But in ...

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 ...

Gold nuggets have long fascinated treasure hunters and geologists alike, often found gleaming within quartz veins deep underground. Yet the exact process behind the formation of these ...

Origin of Gold: From Dying Stars to Human Treasures — The 4-Billion-Year Journey of Earth’s Most Precious Metal The Cosmic Birth of Gold Gold — one of humanity’s oldest obsessions — is far more than a ...

University of Michigan researchers may have found a new geological mechanism for creating gold deposits on Earth. This new theory combines numerical modeling with field observations and could be used ...