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Authenticy Guaranteed
The Prospecting rights to the Acasta Gneiss was claimed by Jake Olson owner of this company in November of 2023. We are the only Legal producer and distrabutor of the Oldest Rock in the world!
Sustainably harvested
Due to the sensitive nature of this sientific discovery, We only collect pieces that have naturally fragmented and erroded off the outcrop of the discovery site. This means no blasting, no drilling, and no change to the prestine Arctic enviroment that is sits in.
Canadian Made
This is truely an original Canadian product. All items are Sourced, hand cut, produced and packaged in Yellowknife NWT Canada! The closest city to the Acasta Gneiss.
WHAT IS THE ACASTA GNeiSs?
World's Oldest Rock! Acasta Gneiss!
The Acasta Gneiss has been a gem in the geological world since being discovered in the late 1980's due to its insight of how the world was formed billions of years ago. Geologists call it a rare and valuable specimen, a relic of billions of years ago that is immensely difficult to study due to its location. the Acasta River rock deposit was Zircon dated to be around 4.03 billion years old, making it the oldest known intact crustal deposit on Earth! Bits of the Gneiss have gone to the Royal Ontario Museum, the Smithsonian in Washington D.C., universities, collectors and researchers all over the world. The Acasta to this day is being studied and researched with the most recent scientific paper being published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geoscience on August 14 2018.
To further showcase the Acasta’s importance, The Acasta Gneiss is the reason why Yellowknife has its Name of Mars. On August 5 2012 the Mars curiosity rover landed successfully on Quad 51. After doing mineral testing in Quad 51, the Mars curiosity rover discovered that the age of the Mars rock was strikingly similar to age dated rocks located on the Acasta Gneiss. NASA officially named Quad 51, Yellowknife Bay, due to the oldest rocks on earth being located near The NWT capital city.
