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So why is gold found in veins? Isn't it weird that all this dead-star juice clumps together? It isn't formed by the Earth. So it just got deposited in clumps? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Time + gravity + chemistry + physics = hot stirring clumpy rock stew

As the stew goes from hot to warm over millions of years things settle into some interesting patterns. The highest concentrations of known gold geological formations happen to be on the oldest pieces of the earth’s crust btw.