Physical gold demand across major Asian markets was subdued this week as elevated prices curtailed buying activity, with ...

Stumbling on a giant gold nugget and never working again is something we’ve all daydreamed about, but how exactly do they form? A new experiment has found that earthquakes and electricity might be key ...

Scientists have discovered exactly how earthquakes trigger quartz into forming large gold nuggets — finally solving a mystery that's puzzled researchers for decades. "Gold forms in quartz all the time ...

There's no place like home! The Reserve Bank of India repatriated 64 tonnes of gold through the first six months of its ...

India's PC Jeweller posted a rise in second-quarter profit on Tuesday, as a steep run-up in gold prices lifted transaction ...

Gold has always been a hot commodity. But these days, finding a nugget isn’t too tricky: Much of the world’s gold is mined from natural veins of quartz, a glassy mineral that streaks through large ...

For decades, researchers have known that earthquakes, quartz, and gold were linked—nearly 75% of gold circulating today came from nuggets originally embedded in quartz deposits near faults. But in ...

An Australian man has quite literally struck gold. LONDON -- An Australian man has quite literally struck gold. He discovered a rare gold nugget worth about 240,000 Australian dollars, or about ...

When strained by earthquakes, underground networks of quartz veins can generate enough voltage to snatch gold from passing fluids, researchers report September 2 in Nature Geoscience. The findings ...