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Hot water is a very effective medium for the transport and enrichment of certain elements that are subsequently precipitated from the water. This can happen in very different places such as at a hot spring on the seabed, along a fault, in fine cracks above a granite pluton, in a cave, or in the pores of the rock. The space necessary for precipitation can even be created by simultaneously dissolving the surrounding rock in a process called replacement.

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