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The oldest mineral is somewhat controversial as the dating error of such old objects is millions of years; the oldest so far dated a zircon which is 4,404 million years ± 8 million years which is in a metamorphic gneiss in the Jack Hills of the Narryer Gneiss Terrane of Western Australia.

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