Can Earthquakes Help Create Gold Nuggets?

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Earthquakes can trigger quartz intoforming giant gold nuggets, study finds

By Sascha Pare, Live Science, September 2, 2024

 

The paywalled paper is:

 

Voisey, C.R., Tomkins, A.G. and Hunter, N.J., 2019. Gold Accumulations

in Quartz Driven by Earthquake-Induced Piezoelectricity. Crustal-to Nano-

Scale Influences on Orogenic Gold Deposits: Insights from the Central

Victorian Goldfields, Nature Geoscience. Published online Spetembr 2, 2024

 

PDF of University of Manash publication about this research

 

Yours,

Paul H.