In its pure, manmade form it's known as vermilion ... When you mix the finely powdered gold-bearing rock with some mercury, the gold within the rock dissolves and forms what's called a gold ...

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.

People have long been fascinated by nuggets, large aggregates of almost pure gold often found nestled within the host rock or loose in weathered sediments. But how exactly nuggets form remains a ...

On the surface, it is concentrated in volcanic or magmatic rocks. But how that gold is ... or molecule with a net electrical charge) to form a gold-trisulfur complex. This complex is highly ...

Scientists have long suspected that sulfur, which forms strong chemical bonds with gold, allows it to be transported up to the surface.

University of Michigan researchers may have found a new geological mechanism for creating gold deposits on Earth. This new theory combines numerical modeling with field observations and could be ...

More than 2,400 ounces of gold were found in the largest rock, RNC Minerals says Miners in Western Australia say they have discovered two huge gold-encrusted rocks that are each estimated to be ...