The world's largest crater inhabitants live a miracle, ** diamonds are abundant and private mining is prohibited.
We read all the books to present a different history.
I'm sure you've all heard of meteorites. Meteorites, also known as meteoroids, are actually free-floating asteroids or star fragments in space, and when they pass by the Earth, they are affected by the Earth's gravity and fly away from their original orbit towards the Earth. When a meteorite flies at high speed in the earth's atmosphere, it will produce high temperatures due to friction, and then ** form a meteor shower, which will not burn into a meteorite when it falls to the earth, but will form a large crater.
According to statistics, most meteorites fell in Europe, North America, and Australia, and over a long period of time - the youngest meteorite is only 200 years old, while the oldest is 2 billion years old. Because meteorites vary in size and have different effects after entering the atmosphere, craters that form over time vary in size and shape. There are currently 190 craters on land and a conservative estimate of 2,000 craters in the ocean. It is worth noting that the Friedberg crater in the Free State region of South Africa is the oldest and largest known crater in the world and the oldest inhabited crater, with formation dating back to 202.3 billion years ago.
Due to its long history, the locals did not know that they lived in the crater or that the crater was so large that it was more than 8 million square kilometers, and the locals gradually established four towns with a population of 550,000. Due to the special geological structure and soil composition of the land in the Friedberg crater, it is difficult to grow food, and for a long time, it is difficult to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people. However, according to the geological team, the Friedberg crater is rich in mineral resources, with at least 1,000 tons** and diamonds, comparable to some countries.
Such an amount will undoubtedly make many stakeholders red-eyed, so in order to prevent large-scale mining from affecting the international market and hindering the development of other forces, the local ** has implemented a series of policies to strictly prohibit private mining, so local mining activities are basically led by business organizations. The inhabitants of the crater were originally de facto miners, but because the crater was rich in minerals, they did not have to worry about the depletion of resources, so they gradually settled down and became the original inhabitants of the crater. With the discovery of **, diamonds, and others, the crater has changed dramatically, and all four towns have developed a strong economic and social vitality.
Research by experts suggests that the Friedberg crater was formed when an asteroid hit the Earth at a speed of 250,000 kilometers per hour. Since the asteroid hit in the opposite direction to the Earth's rotation, it bounced off the ground, creating a relatively shallow crater. The impact was followed by a violent **, with severe damage to vegetation and soil, and the resulting high temperatures melted and cooled the soil and rocks thousands of kilometers away, forming highly mineralized quartzite, leaving the area with little land suitable for cultivation and people having to rely on mining for a long time to survive.
But now the situation has changed somewhat: on 14 July 2005, the World Heritage Conference in Durban, South Africa, decided to replace South Africa's"Fribourg Crater"Inscribed on the World Heritage List. As a result, the local crater has been developed as a tourist attraction, and every year tourists from all over the world come to the crater to experience life in the mines with the miners. These unusual scenes are a feast for the eyes.