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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

Newfound Mineral Is Like No Other:

Putnisite is a newly discovered mineral that occurs as tiny crystals on volcanic rock. One such crystal, just 0.4 millimeters across, shown here, was recently found at the Armstrong mine in Widgiemooltha, Western Australia. A new purple-pink mineral that has a chemical composition and crystalline structure unlike any of the known 4,000 minerals has been discovered at a mining site in Western Australia, researchers report.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/rocks-fossils/uniq ue-crystals-newfound-mineral-is-like-no-other-1404 28.htm [discovery.com]

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