Of course, having pre-existing gold serves as a catalyst for this entire process to happen during earthquakes, and scientists have managed to recreate this process in a lab, allowing them to create even larger gold nuggets, which could potentially have mining applications.
However, the process alone can’t help exploration and geologists find larger deposits and tell them where to mine for gold or the quantity of gold present in quartz deposits in the ground.
The best technology now has to offer are piezoelectric detectors capable of detecting quartz at a certain depth, but they can’t tell us where exactly the quartz veins are and whether or not there’s any gold in them. Fortunately, quartz and gold resulting from these earthquakes are used by the electronics industry, and several other industries as well, so the digging continues.
Source: Nature.com
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