Your next nugget in West Australia

[Nightjar]

When your next nugget is scratched out of WA's red dirt spare a thought about how long it has laid there undisturbed.
Untouched by human hand for 4.4 billion years.

http://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/Geological-Survey/Geology-of-Western-Australia-1389.aspx

 

[Nanjim]

Nightjar,
Thanks for the link....
Gives me more reading ...

Cheers Nanjim
Jim

 

[Davent]

But but but the Christians keep telling me that the Earth is only 6000 years old, and the dinosaurs only died out a few hundred years ago, knights were still slaying them up untill the medieval times......lol!

 

[Wally69]

A recent study of WA fossils indicated that once upon a time the earth was so rich in natural elements, the then WA Spinifex leaves took on a slightly more golden hew as they absorbed the vast abundance of heavy metals available, particularly the element AU. It is also a know fact that a descendant of the current day magpie goose inhabited the continent widely North of what is now Sydney and Perth and as a flocking bird seasonally nested on mass in the many WA billabongs.

As you may know modern day phosphate mines harvest ancient bird droppings, in WA those phosphate deposits from the relative of the magpie goose have long been turned into salt pans that concentrated the grazing gooses golden ***** into even richer mineralisation creating the nuggets that are widely dispersed across the continent today.

I love modern religio-political history, it can be rewritten at any time.