Silver and gold occur in the free state in nature state reason for the following ?

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This is because metals like platinum,gold and silver are noble metals,they do not easily mix with impurities such as silica,potassium etc. And even if they do mix it can be easily separated by adding a acid to it.Hence, these metals are present in free state.

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