Save a boulder hoping it’s gold

Grid.ID – A man saves big Stone valuable because guessing it contains gold.

However, after long storage, big Stone it doesn’t contain gold but much more valuable than that.

In fact, when you know big Stone that the man had kept, the geologists were dumbfounded.

In 2015, David Hole was exploring at Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia.

Armed with a metal detector, he finds something out of the ordinary – a very heavy reddish stone that lies in yellow clay.

He then took it home and tried every way to open it.

David is sure that there is a lump gold in the rock.

What’s more, Maryborough is in the Goldfields area, where the fever is gold Australia reached its peak in the 19th century.

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To dismantle his findings, David tried rock saws, angle grinders, drills, and even acidified the object.

However, not even a sledgehammer could make a crack in the rock.

That’s because the findings are not gold nugget.

Unable to open the ‘stone’, but still curious, David took the boulder to the Melbourne Museum for identification.

Years later, David only found out that his findings turned out to be a rare meteorite, launched Science Alert, Monday (22/11/2021).

“It had a sculpted, dimpled look,” Melbourne museum geologist Dermot Henry told The Sydney Morning Herald.

“It forms when they pass through the atmosphere, they melt outside, and the atmosphere sculpts them.”

“I’ve seen a lot of rocks that people think are meteorites,” Henry told Channel 10 News.

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In fact, after 37 years of working in museums and examining thousands of rocks, Henry explains that only two of the finds were actually meteorites.

And David’s findings are one of two.

“If you look at rock on Earth like this, and you pick it up, it shouldn’t be that heavy,” another Melbourne Museum geologist, Bill Birch, told The Sydney Morning Herald in 2019.

The researchers later published a scientific paper describing the 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite, which they called Maryborough after the town near where it was found.

It’s a massive 17 kilograms (37.5 pounds), and after using a diamond saw to cut small wedges, they discovered its composition had a high percentage of iron, making it the common chondrite of H5.

Once open, you can also see tiny crystal droplets of metallic minerals all over it, called chondrules.

“Meteorites provide the cheapest form of space exploration. They take us back in time, providing clues about the age, formation, and chemistry of our Solar System (including Earth),” Henry said.

“Some provide a glimpse of the interior of our planet. In some meteorites, there is ‘star dust’ even older than our Solar System, which shows us how stars formed and evolved to create the elements of the periodic table.

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“Other rare meteorites contain organic molecules such as amino acids; the building blocks of life.”

While researchers don’t yet know where the meteorite came from and how long it’s been on Earth, they have some estimates.