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Man kept rock for years, thinking it was gold. It turned out to be a 4.6-billion-year-old piece of the solar system

In the rugged goldfields of southeastern Australia, a local prospector spent years trying to crack open a mysterious, ...
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Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Way More Valuable.

In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock ...