The Conversation

How do you make a giant gold nugget? Take a vein of quartz, add a few thousand earthquakes

Christopher Voisey receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia. Humanity’s fascination with gold stretches back thousands of years.
Earth.com

No one expected to find so much gold in the Abitibi belt

The new Miroir and Aiguille gold zones discovered in Duparquet, Quebec, could expand a project with more than 3.4 million ...
Yahoo

Earthquakes can trigger quartz into forming giant gold nuggets, study finds

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 ...
Business Insider

Northern Shield Discovers Anomalous Gold in Epithermal Quartz Veins from Shot Rock Gold Project, Nova Scotia

OTTAWA, July 24, 2018 /CNW/ - Northern Shield Resources Inc. ("Northern Shield" or the "Company") (TSXV: NRN) is pleased to announce the results from the first phase of rock sampling at the Shot Rock ...

Eskay Receives High-Grade Gold Results from the Final Batch of Surface Samples from its 2025 Exploration Campaign at its 100% Controlled Consolidated Eskay Project, Golden ...

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / November 7, 2025 / Eskay Mining Corp. (“Eskay” or the “Company”) (TSXV:ESK)(OTC PINK:ESKYF)(Frankfurt:KN7)(WKN:A0YDPM) is pleased to provide additional assay results ...