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what is Goldschmidtite?

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    Miscellaneous
  • Published
    8th Oct, 2019

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  • A new, curious mineral has been discovered inside a diamond unearthed from a mine in South Africa.
  • The mineral has been named goldschmidtite, after Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, the Norwegian scientist acknowledged as the founder of modern geochemistry.
  • Goldschmidtite has an unusual chemical signature for a mineral from Earth’s mantle
  • While the mantle is dominated by elements such as magnesium and iron, goldschmidtite has high concentrations of niobium, potassium and the rare earth elements lanthanum and cerium.

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