The magic of crystal formation had already been done by natural processes; all that was needed was a little slicing and dicing. As it turns out, though, quartz is so immensely useful for a ...

Even though people have been hunting for – and finding – gold nuggets in the Earth for hundreds of years, we haven’t stopped ...

“In essence, the quartz acts like a natural battery, with gold as the electrode, slowly accumulating more gold with each seismic event. Our discovery provides a plausible explanation for the ...

They suspended quartz crystals in a solution rich in gold, then applied mechanical stress ... scientific curiosity—it could ...