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.

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 is another method of gold making in town, and scientists are shocked. This method results in the formation of gold nuggets and involves earthquakes. Findings regarding this have been published ...

One of the confirmed cosmic sources for gold is the neutron star merger (or neutron star collision). This is an event where two neutron stars end up in the same orbit and eventually lose energy and ...