Is it true that there is "proof" of ancient gold mining from studies conducted by a South African mining corporation in the 1970s? According to the book I'm reading, scientists discovered evidence of ancient mining operations dating back as far as 100000 BC, and that similar mining has been found in Central and South American?.

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You all are going to think I've fallen off the deep end, but I'm currently reading a book that I thought was about Freemasonry, but is actually about aliens having begun human civilization. Now, I half think this is hilarious, but I can't help wondering about some of the more unbelievable "facts" presented at the end of the book. So I'm going to post several questions based on "facts" presented in the book. Please feel free to give evidence or alternate explanations against these facts, because I really don't want to become a nut who thinks aliens kept humans as slaves, genetically modified us, and mined our planet millions of years ago.

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OOPARTs or Out of Place Artifacts. The Web is full of it, er, sites that cover this subject.

Though most are easily and readily explained away by scientists. Right John Galt?