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Any of the metallic elements that occur in nature in the chemically uncombined or elemental form (in addition to any combined form). They include bismuth, cobalt, copper, gold, iridium, iron, lead, mercury, nickel, osmium, palladium, platinum, ruthenium, rhodium, tin, and silver. Some are commonly found in the free state, such as gold; others occur almost exclusively in the combined state, but under unusual conditions do occur as native metals, such as mercury. Examples of native non-metals are carbon and sulphur.



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Higher hydrogen fugacities, brines, and aqueous sulfur species present during the deposition of the silver veins at Cobalt may also have lowered the melting temperatures of native metals and their alloys.
Jedwab, describing the documented presence of precious metal-bearing minerals, alloys and native metals in the Pisgah Volcanic edifice, is an important discovery.
 
 
 
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