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How earthquakes create gold deposits instantaneously

MINING.com Editor | March 19, 2013 | 11:04 pm Precious Metals Africa Australia China Europe Latin America Gold 

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 by large scale movements of the earth's crust billions of years ago have...

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