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New Study Identifies Earth’s Secret Metal Highways Beneath Ancient Continents (scitechdaily.com)
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[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

In case anyone is thinking about some ancient aliens BS, this is about the natural accumulation of metals important to a green energy transition due to plate tectonics:

The study identifies the margins of ancient continental cores as promising locations for these metal deposits and explains the geological mechanisms behind their formation.