Sample recovered 220 years ago turns out to be new mineral

Researchers from London’s Natural History Museum, the Diamond Lightsource in Harwell, Oxford, and Slovakia discovered a new mineral almost by accident when investigating a sample of liroconite, a bright blue mineral recovered from a mine in Cornwall 220 years ago....

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