It has all the ingredients of the primordial soup. Yet biological processes appear to have played no part in forming the life-friendly chemicals discovered in a pocket of water that last saw the light of day 1.5 billion years ago. Barbara Sherwood Lollar at the University of Toronto in Canada and her team discovered the water a few years ago, oozing out of the rocky walls deep in the Kidd mine near Timmins in Ontario. Chemical analysis suggested that the water had been sealed away inside a cavity in the rock. The water appears to contain no life--making it an extremely rare find.
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