What Time Span Is Required to Produce Most Mineral Deposits

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Multiple Choice

What time span is required to produce most mineral deposits?

• A) billions of years
• B) tens of thousands to millions of years
• C) 1- 100 years, or about a human life span
• D) We have no way of knowing this, but most were formed at the same time as Earth.

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