“Seismic waves from earthquakes produce strong enough electric voltages in quartz to extract dissolved gold from fluids infiltrating the mineral. This mechanism can help explain the creation of large nuggets and observed highly interconnected gold networks within quartz vein fractures.” 🧪⚒️

Scientists find seismic role in formation of large gold nuggets

Forces unleashed by quakes squeeze quartz enough to generate electric fields, driving formation of deposits

This is so interesting and it just blows my mind!