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minerals are not man-made. They are naturally occurring. Minerals concocted in the the lab do not count although there are about 208 man made minerals discovered around mines
The first living things on Earth, single-celled micro-organisms or microbes lacking a cell nucleus or cell membrane known as prokaryotes, seem to have first appeared on Earth almost four billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the formation of the Earth itself.
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