Getting Stoned: Davemaoite
Getting Stoned: A Podcast About Gems and Minerals
English - December 02, 2021 16:57 - 5 minutes - 4.89 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsHobbies Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Davemaoite is a new mineral that has never been observed in nature before. The reason for this is that it is a lower mantle mineral which would typically fall apart once out of a high pressured environment.
Link to article by UNLV
https://www.unlv.edu/news/release/research-brief-first-ever-interior-earth-mineral-discovered-nature