Spanning several kilometers in diameter, it is one of the largest craters in the world. Five Times Larger Than Wolfe CreekJayson Meyers, a geophysicist with Evolution Mining, the third-largest gold mining company in Australia, shared insights in an article published by ABC News on August 2, 2020. While searching for gold, Meyers and his team stumbled upon one of the largest impact craters in the world. A Crater Hidden Until NowJayson Meyers pointed out that the impact crater was discovered in a very flat region. Indeed, core samples revealed the presence of “shatter cones,” which are rock structures with divergent conical fractures found only in meteoritic impact craters (or nuclear explosions).