From Nature Geoscience via SciNews:
“While geochemical and geological evidence has long alluded to a connection between earthquakes and the deposition of gold, there has been much debate through the decades as to whether the precipitation of gold was a slow, equilibrium process or whether, as Professor Henley was proposing, it was a rapid and far from equilibrium process,” explained Dr Dion Weatherley from the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute, co-author of a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
