Vredefort Crater, the world’s oldest and largest known impact structure

Re:Vredefort Crater, the world’s oldest and largest known im... by jacquesm on Sunday September 02, 2018 @06:05AM (#17896414)

I read that and thought that it would be an excellent spot to prospect for gold, then it turns out that this is already the source of 1/3rd of all the gold mined on earth. Oh well, I'll have to wait for another good idea I guess.

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Re:Vredefort Crater, the world’s oldest and largest known im... by scrappyjoe on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:27AM (#17896746)

Fun fact. The Vredefort Impact Area is roughly overlaid by a larger geological feature called the Bushveld Igneous Complex, which is from a totally unrelated geological event but resulted in this area having 60% of all the platinum and palladium in the world. So South Africa is stupendously geologically lucky twice over.

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Re:Vredefort Crater, the world’s oldest and largest known im... by cwilkes on Sunday September 02, 2018 @09:27AM (#17896923)

Or another asteroid to hit

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