Gold is often deposited in Earth's crust by fluids that percolate through rock fractures. Earthquakes cause rock fractures to expand rapidly and could cause the fluids to evaporate, triggering almost ...

Much of the world's known gold has been derived from arrays of quartz veins. The veins formed during periods of mountain building that occurred as long as 3 billion years ago, and were deposited by ...

A study featured in Nature Magazine’s Geoscience section revealed that gold deposits can form almost instantaneously during earthquakes in a process called “flash vaporization.” Quartz ‘veins’ formed ...