Such alteration is easily visualized, often showing a light pink color on a rock surface. It can be used as an indicator of nearby gold mineralization. Despite this well-documented relationship, it ...

Chinese scientists have, for the first time, captured at the nanoscale the dynamic process by which natural gold nanoparticles form on the surface of pyrite, and proposed a new mechanism in which ...

Neutron collisions are cosmic events of immense power that have the ability to forge some of the universe’s most precious elements, including gold. These astronomical phenomena provide a unique ...

of how the precious metal came to be available in disparate forms, and how some gold-ore deposits might have been formed.