So where ‘on earth’, did the iron used to make these pillars in India come from in ancient
times? Some people have theories on where such pillars are from – save that thought.
Fig.452.8 Billion year Old Metal Spheres
In a most bizarre series of finds that are still ongoing, for the past 60 years or so, miners in
Africa have been finding literally hundreds of metal spheres, some from quite deep underground.
And at least one of them, possibly more, has three parallel grooves running around its
circumference (fig.44). The spheres seem to come in two types: one is of a solid bluish metal and
has white flecks in it and the others are hollow with a kind of spongy centre. The curator of the
museum of Klerksdorp in South Africa, where many of the spheres are housed, a Mr. Roelf Marx
describes them this way: "The spheres are a complete mystery. They look man-made, yet at the
time in Earth's history when they came to rest in this rock no intelligent life existed. They're
nothing like I have ever seen before"
Roelf Marx also wrote a further letter dated September 12, 1984 that contains more
information on the spheres. In it he wrote: "There is nothing scientific published about the globes,
but the facts are: They are found in pyrophyllite, which is mined near the little town of Ottosdal
in the Western Transvaal. This pyrophyllite (Al2Si4O10(OH)2) is a quite soft secondary mineral
with a count of only 3 on the Mohs' scale and was formed by sedimentation about 2.8 billion
years ago. On the other hand the globes, which have a fibrous structure on the inside with a shell
around it, are very hard and cannot be scratched, even by steel." (The Mohs' scale of hardness
was devised and is named after Friedrich Mohs, who chose ten minerals as references points for
comparative hardness, with talc the softest and diamond the hardest.)
However, as if the mere existence of these metal spheres is not enough there is still another
amazing property of the artifacts that captured the attention of a Mr. John Hund of Petersburg
about fifteen years ago. While playing with one of the objects on the flat surface of a table one