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 large chunks of Earth’s squashed-up ...

"In essence, the quartz acts like a natural battery ... provides a plausible explanation for the formation of large gold nuggets in quartz veins." Other scientists in the field have been intrigued ...

The nugget could fetch £800 in scrap alone, but would be worth a lot more should it be deemed natural. “It is rare enough to ...

Stumbling on a giant gold nugget and never working again is something ... “In essence, the quartz acts like a natural battery, with gold as the electrode, slowly accumulating more gold with ...

“It has been estimated that all of the Gold ever mined could fit in a cube measuring roughly 22 meters (72 feet) in each direction. Very little remains in a natural nugget state, with the vast ...

But in reality, the nuggets only form in concentrated ... “In essence, the quartz acts like a natural battery, with gold as the electrode slowly accumulating more gold with each seismic event ...

“Our discovery provides a plausible explanation for the formation of large gold nuggets in quartz veins,” said Dr. Voisey, who likens the quartz to a natural battery and gold to the electrode ...