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Kidd Creek In The News!
CTV News Release (November 28, 2020)
Ingenium, Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation located in Ottawa, has acquired a water sample from the Kidd Creek mine in Timmins, Ontario where I do my field work. This particular water sample is from my favorite borehole, Borehole 12299. The waters flowing from this borehole has been previously aged to be over 2 billion years old! This means the water is from before the Great Oxygenation Event when Earth’s atmosphere had little to no oxygen and was host only to anaerobic forms of life.
The Kidd Creek project, as I like to call it, is an amazing scientific endeavor that involves scientists from all over the world working together to analyze this ancient water. One of my favorite things about this project is how interdisciplinary it is - it’s wonderful to see what science can be achieved when people from different backgrounds and training come together to try and solve problems. I guess I never really realized that people would think that a vial of this water was special enough for a museum. I’ve got a bottle of it displayed in my apartment for sentimental reasons as conducting field work in Kidd Creek Mine was my first experience in the field where I collected my own samples.