Rare meteorite found by gold fossickers sold to Geoscience Australia after lying undiscovered for 4.5 billion years
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The Georgetown meteorite was discovered on Queensland grazing land in 2016.
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It was almost dinner-time and friends Paul and John, who had been out gold-fossicking near Georgetown, Queensland, were finishing up for the day.
As he wandered along to meet John, Paul s metal-detector suddenly started emitting a strong sound. I thought, gee, that was a good signal , he said. And I couldn t get rid of it so I started scraping away and kept getting deeper and the signal got better.