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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[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 39 points 5 months ago

In geology, a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock. Veins form when mineral constituents carried by an aqueous solution within the rock mass are deposited through precipitation. The hydraulic flow involved is usually due to hydrothermal circulation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vein_(geology)

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