Possible explanations for a world with hard to access metal deposites?

The concept of a metal poor world is one that I find deeply fascinating. In part because I fell in love with the setting that first exposed me to the concept, Dark Sun.

So I want incorporate a very limited access to metal into the back story of my setting. However I don't just want the planet to be metal poor, its more that the peoples living in my world for much of their history had a very difficult time accessing the planet's metallic bounty.

Before I resort to hand-waving I was wondering is there any possible real explanations for why the metal on a planet would be difficult to access.

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