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Water-rich solutions carrying metallic salts fill cracks and form

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Veins

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As magma cools, water dissolved in the melted rock rises and is forced into any available cracks in the top of the igneous rock or in formations above. Often this super-hot hydrothermal fluid contains dissolved metals, which are deposited in veins, filling cracks in the batholith or laccolith. Veins like these yield gold, silver, copper, and other valuable metals.

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Water-rich solutions carrying metallic salts fill cracks and form veins.
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