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Iron banded formations...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_iron_formation

Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_iron_formation

Also plants performing agromining.

It's not a big blender, there are all kinds of processes forming gradients.

How do earthquakes make gold veins? Something like this? https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.12615

Oops, that is exactly what I meant to post.

That's a fascinating process. Even the slow way of forming veins is something that I didn't know until today. Science blows my mind.

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