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We can't usually feel them, but dozens of earthquakes occur every day—and some of them are using mundane minerals to make glittering gold. Researchers have found that tectonic shifts put just the ...

Humanity’s fascination with gold stretches back thousands of years. Gold mining is described in ancient Greek and Roman sources, and gold rushes – especially in the 19th century – played a powerful ...

"Remarkably, the gold had a tendency to deposit on existing gold grains rather than forming new ones." This is because, while quartz is an electrical insulator, gold is a conductor. Once some gold is ...