Tag Archive for 'Goldschmidtite'

Broken and rounded dodecahedral diamond from the Koffiefontein kimberlite pipe that hosted goldschmidtite; the mineral is seen in green and radiation damage of the diamond can be seen in the brown regions. Image credit: Meyer et al, doi: 10.2138/am-2019-6937.

Goldschmidtite: New Mineral from Earth’s Mantle Found inside Diamond

Sep 24, 2019 by Natali Anderson

A team of geologists from the University of Alberta, Northwestern University and the University of Glasgow has found a previously unknown mineral in a...