[mkirkpatrick]

I would like to start this thread of by reporting some mysterious artifacts and looking at
the implications of these enigmas.First,for the past three decades miners at the Wonderstone silver mine near Ottosdal in the western Transvaal,South Africa,have been
extracting out of deep rock several strange metallic spheriods,so far at least 200 have been found.In 1979,several were closely examined by JR Mclver,professor of geology
at the university of Witwaterstand in Johannesberg,and geologist professor Andries Bisschoff of Potsshefstroom university.

The metallic spheroids look like flattened globes,averaging 1to 4 inches in diameter,and
their exteriors usually are colored steel blue with a reddish reflection,and embedded in
the metal are tiny flects of white fibers.They are made of a nickel-steel alloy which does not occur naturally,and is of a composition that rules them out,being of meteoric origin.
Some have only a thin shell about a quarter of an inch thick,and when broken open are found filled with a strange spongy material that disintegrated into dust on contact with air.

What makes all this very remarkable is that the spheroids were mined out of a layer of pyrophyllite rock,dated both geologically and by the various radio-isotope dating techniques as being at least 2.8 BILLION YEARS OLD?

regards michael.