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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...dest-1.3898740Oldest water in the world found in Ontario by U of T scientists.
The findings stem from the researchers' earlier exploration of water in the same active copper, zinc and silver mine in 2013.
Geochemical analyses of the water at a depth of 2.4 kilometres showed it was a billion years old.
In the team’s latest work, published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications, Long Li, now an assistant professor at the University of Alberta, collected samples of the ancient water from boreholes at the Kidd mine, near Timmins, Ont.
Maybe not the most fascinating scientific discovery, but I found it intriguing because I used to work at the Kidd Creek mine in the engineering department. It's a really unique experience to travel 6,000 feet below ground. And now they are pushing the 9,600 level. Mining at that depth is done by operating the equipment remotely from the surface, because getting miners down that deep (and back up again) would eat up their entire shift. To give you an idea of how deep that is, they have a scale model of the mine in the lobby.
The orange line in that model is the ramp. I rode shotgun in a Dodge Ram down that ramp one day. It was more exciting than any ride at Canada's Wonderland.
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