A team from UNIGE is transforming our understanding of gold transport and ore deposit formation by investigating sulfur in ...

When one tectonic plate sinks beneath another, it generates magmas rich in volatiles such as water, sulfur and chlorine. As ...

“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 ...

"Our discovery provides a plausible explanation for the formation of large gold nuggets in quartz veins," Voisey said. "In ...

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 ...

The UNIGE team placed a quartz cylinder and a liquid with a composition similar to that of a magmatic fluid in a sealed gold capsule ... 875 °C characteristic of natural magmas.

By studying sulphur in magmatic fluids at extreme pressures and temperatures, a UNIGE team is revolutionising our ...