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Answer: Zircon Zircon was the oldest mineral found on Earth. It was found from Jack Hills, Australia, where rocks were found to contain the oldest known minerals on Earth
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Zircons, the oldest minerals on Earth, preserve robust records of chemical and isotopic characteristics of the rocks in which they form. Studying oxygen isotopes in the zircons could give us valuable information about the presence of liquid water in the first few hundred million years of Earth’s history,”
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Saurabh 1
This has to be Zircon. It has been discovered from Australia and dated back to around 4 billion years, which is probably itself explaining the fact of zircon being one of the most stable mineral. You can find it's prominent use in the provenance studies, as a ZTR index (involving most stable minerals like Zircon, Tourmaline and Rutile)