An ore deposit by definition must be economically viable, that is to say it must contain sufficient material at high enough grade to make it possible to mine and process it at a profit (Bates and Jackson 1987). This requires the elements to be collected and concentrated by some phase and for them to be deposited close to the surface of the earth. At the oxygen fugacities found in the crust, native Fe is not normally stable and thus the highly siderophile elements (defined as Ru, Rh, Pd, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, and Au) cannot behave as siderophile...
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