Billion-Year-Old Water Has Highest Concentration Of Radioactively-Produced Elements Ever Found | IFLScience

In 2016 the oldest water in the world was found 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) deep at the bottom of a Canadian mine. Since the previous record had been set three years earlier at a higher level of the same mine, it seemed like there might be something special about that location. Now, however, the same team have found water at similar depth in the Moab Khotsong gold and uranium mine in South Africa and it’s at least 1.2 billion years old. Like the Canadian water, it contains elements that allow life to survive w

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