Ancient meteorite impact in Western Australia may have rained gold on goldfields

Millions of years ago, a meteorite struck the gold-bearing greenstone of Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields, and in doing so, scattered something rare: precious metal across the crater floor. Scientists drilling for ore near the town of Ora Banda stumbled upon this ancient collision not by design, but by the patient logic of exploration — uncovering a four-kilometer impact structure that now stands as one of only 34 confirmed craters on the Australian continent. What makes this discovery singular is not merely the violence of the event, but its geological coincidence: a rock from space mee