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Published online 13 September 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020909-12
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Rivers ran with gold three billion years ago
Insight into gold's origins could help prospectors.
Three billion years ago there was no life on land and no oxygen in the atmosphere. But the rivers ran with gold.
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