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"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 resting in some yellow clay.
He took it home and tried everything to open it, sure that there was a gold
nugget inside the rock – after all, Maryborough is in the Goldfields region,
where the Australian gold rush peaked in the 19th century.
To break open his find, Hole tried a rock saw, an angle grinder, a drill, even
dousing the thing in acid. However, not even a sledgehammer could make a crack.
That's because what he was trying so hard to open was no gold nugget.
As he found out years later, it was a rare meteorite."
Via Rixty Dixet.
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