Man Keeps 17-Kilogram Rock For Years, Thinking It’s Gold – Turns Out It’s A 4.6 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Worth Much More
In 2015, Australian prospector David Hole searched for gold in Maryborough Regional Park, near Melbourne, with his metal detector. While this wasn’t an unusual outing for the prospector, what he discovered was. He unearthed an unusually heavy reddish rock, which he suspected was a gold nugget at the time. He took the rock home and tried everything to crack it open – saws, hammers, even acid—but nothing worked. Years later, he took the rock to the Melbourne Museum to have them identify it. To his
