What are the risks of opening an 830 million-year-old crystal that contains microscopic organisms?

Geologists plan to unlock an 830-million-year-old rock salt crystal that is believed to contain ancient microorganisms that may still be alive.
Earlier this month, researchers from the American Geological Society announced, for the first time, that they had discovered small remnants of prokaryotic life and algae, inside an ancient halite crystal, according to the American “NPR” agency.
These organisms are found within microscopic bubbles of liquid in the crystal, known as fluid inclusions, which can serve as micro-habitats for small colonies to thrive.
While returning 830 million-year-old life forms to the modern world may not seem like the most sensible idea, the researchers insist that the step be taken, albeit with the utmost caution.
This discovery was reported in the Geology Journal on May 11.

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The researchers used a selection of imaging techniques to study fluid inclusions in a piece of halite from the 830-million-year-old Brown Formation, which was found in central Australia.
Through their research, they discovered organic solids and liquids that were consistent in size, shape, and fluorescent response to prokaryotic cells and algae.
The discovery also shows that microorganisms can remain well-preserved in a halite crystal over hundreds of millions of years.
According to the researchers, the opening of the archaeological crystal now in 2022 has implications for the search for alien life, explaining that it is possible to discover similar biosignatures in chemical deposits from Mars, where large salt deposits have been identified as evidence of ancient liquid water reservoirs.
While it may seem implausible that the microorganisms within the crystal are still alive, earlier living prokaryotes were extracted from a halite crystal dating back 250 million years, so it is not impossible to live 830 million years.
And about the risks of opening the crystal, which is hundreds of millions of years old, Bonnie Baxter, a biologist at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, who was not involved in the study, says that “the risk of a horrific pandemic is relatively low.”
She explained, “An environmental organism that has never seen a human before would not have a mechanism to enter our bodies and cause us to get sick, so I personally am not afraid of that, from a scientific perspective.”