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Earthquakes may have caused gold nuggets to form, study finds

Staff Writer | September 08, 2024 | 7:31 am Education News Gold 

Seismic activity (i.e. earthquakes) may finally help solve the mystery behind the existence of large gold nuggets found beneath the Earth’s surface, a new study published in Nature Geosciences finds. Most nuggets originate from the quartz veins formed in orogenic...

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