{"id":283,"date":"2014-02-17T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/2014\/02\/17\/earthquakes-cause-gold-vein-deposits\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T11:36:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T11:36:22","slug":"earthquakes-cause-gold-vein-deposits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukbullion.com\/blog\/earthquakes-cause-gold-vein-deposits\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes cause Gold Vein deposits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"img-hdr\"><span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukbullion.com\/gold\/buy-gold-coins\/cgt-free-gold-coins\/full-sovereign-gold-coin-916-7.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Gold Bullion Coins from UKBullion.com\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A natural cluster of gold\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukbullion.com\/media\/wysiwyg\/blog-images\/2014-02-17-Gold.png\" \/><\/a> <small id=\"img-src\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Gold-270438.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Image source\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Image source<\/strong><\/a><\/small> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Changes in pressure caused by movements the Earth&rsquo;s crust creates tiny Gold deposits, known as &lsquo;veins of Gold&rsquo; it has been reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/v6\/n4\/full\/ngeo1759.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Flash vaporization during earthquakes evidenced by gold deposits\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nature Geoscience<\/strong><\/a>, researchers have found that veins of gold can occur almost instantaneously, taking in less that half a second.<\/p>\n<p>This natural process takes place along &#8216;fault jogs&rsquo; which are zigzag cracks that connect to the main fault lines in the rock. At the time of an earthquake, there is a large reduction of pressure in these fault jogs; as mineral-rich fluids filter through, the rapidly crystallisation forms into very fine Gold deposits.<\/p>\n<p><small>News source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/earthquakes-make-gold-veins-in-an-instant\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ScientificAmerican.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\n\/\/ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image source Changes in pressure caused by movements the Earth&rsquo;s crust creates tiny Gold deposits, known as &lsquo;veins of Gold&rsquo; it has been reported. In a study published in Nature Geoscience, researchers have found that veins of gold can occur almost instantaneously, taking in less that half a second. This natural process takes place along &#8216;fault jogs&rsquo; which are zigzag cracks that connect to the main fault lines in the rock. At the time of an earthquake, there is a large reduction of pressure in these fault jogs; as mineral-rich fluids filter through, the rapidly crystallisation forms into very fine Gold deposits. News source: ScientificAmerican.com. \/\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[273],"tags":[177,13],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Earthquakes cause Gold Vein deposits - UKBullion Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Earthquakes cause Gold Vein deposits - UKBullion Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Image source Changes in pressure caused by movements the Earth&rsquo;s crust creates tiny Gold deposits, known as &lsquo;veins of Gold&rsquo; it has been reported. 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