Gold Rains

No, it's not just a drink deal available at the swankiest clubs in town. Our current abundance of precious metal deposits can be attributed to the bombardment of metal from space. As a heavy metal, gold did not occur very frequently in the natural production of minerals on Earth, which is one of the reasons it is so uncommon. It was up to chemical reactions in stars, particularly neutron stars, to produce gold during the supernova process and send it to planets as meteors, according to an article by Livescience.com from October 2020.

Scientists have sought below the surface of the earth for proof of this rather than up at the stars. Deposits from 70 kilometers were being uncovered in an abnormally high concentration during an excavation at Deseado Massiff, Argentina, in 2017. This indicates that the meteorites that created the Earth's rich gold resources fell in the greatest quantities around 200 million years ago, according to Jose Jimenez of the University of Granada.

Don't plan to go prospecting if you learn that Venus has gold rains. That is merely pyrite that has evaporated on the surface and frozen again into crystals in the upper atmosphere like snowflakes. In other words, if you prefer, it's more akin to fools gold rain.