Andrew Robertson, Chief Health Officer of Western Australia, said officials are concerned that an unsuspecting party would pick up the object, not knowing what it is, and keep it, the AP reported.

The capsule was being transported from a Rio Tinto mining site near Newman, Western Australia to the capital city of Perth, leaving a stretch of roughly 720 miles where it could have fallen out.

The capsule left a mine site north of the town of Newman by road on January 12, according to a statement released by Western Australia’s Department of Fire & Emergency Services (DFES) on Saturday.

The silver capsule the size of a pea had been lost in transit last month on the Great Northern Highway in Western Australia. "We have essentially found the needle in the haystack," one official said.

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Rio Tinto sacks 40 employees from West Angelas near Newman, in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Cutbacks like this are rare, given Rio Tinto still makes a staggering profit shipping iron ore ...

Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has sacked a group of staff working at an iron ore mine near Newman, in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, and scaled back the proposed developments of two ...

Rio Tinto sacks 40 employees from West Angelas near Newman, in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Cutbacks like this are rare, given Rio Tinto still makes a staggering profit shipping iron ore ...

Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has sacked a group of staff working at an iron ore mine near Newman, in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, and scaled back the proposed developments of two ...