Found in Canadian Mine

Two Billion-Year-Old Water Found in Canadian Mine


Canadian Geoscientists have uncovered water that dates back a whopping two billion years. It’s the oldest water ever discovered on Earth, and it could broaden our understanding of how life emerged on our planet—and possibly elsewhere.

“It won’t kill you if you drank it, but it would taste absolutely disgusting.”
The University of Toronto researchers found the primordial water at a depth of 1.5 miles miles (2.4 km) in Kidd Creek Mine, which is located in Timmins, Ontario. The team, co-led by geoscientist Oliver Warr, explained their findings at an American Geophysical Union meeting held earlier this week in San Francisco. These findings are set to appear in a future edition of the journal Nature. 

Three years ago, these same researchers discovered 1.5 billion-year-old water in the same active copper, zinc, and silver mine, but at a shallower depth. They decided to look deeper, finding pools of water that date back to a time when the Earth was just 2.5 billion years old. Incredibly, this ancient water was freely flowing, and not embedded within rock formations as some geoscientists had assumed.




“When people think about this water they assume it must be some tiny amount of water trapped within the rock,” said U of T geochemist Barbara Sherwood Lollar in a conversation with the BBC. “But in fact it’s very much bubbling right up out at you. These things are flowing at rates of litres per minute—the volume of the water is much larger than anyone anticipated.”

A chemical analysis of the water revealed traces of helium, argon, neon, krypton, and xenon. These gases accumulate in the water over time, allowing the researchers to calculate its age. The water also contains trace metals and salt (about eight times the amount found in seawater). “It won’t kill you if you drank it, but it would taste absolutely disgusting,” noted Warr in a CBC article.

The researchers describe the water as an “interconnected fluid system” deep in the Canadian Shield that’s billions of years old and capable of supporting life. “We are just slowly beginning to understand that i

Bullshit science . Ain no way they can tell the age of water , If  I spiked the water with the same chemical tomorrow they will come up with the same conclusions.

You would have to be related to Superman of Kal-El from the planet Krypton

to get that Spiked in the water