In The News: Department of Geoscience

Goldstream News Gazette

Tree ring records show droughts worse than 2021 summer, without influence of climate change.

Nouvelles du monde

Scientists have found a new mineral packed in diamond more than 600 km deep in the Earth's lower mantle for the first time.

KOLO

University of Nevada, Las Vegas geochemists found a mineral on the earth’s surface that’s only been found hundreds of miles below the surface in the earth’s mantle.

Big Think

Until now, researchers believed davemaoite could never be found on Earth's surface.

CNN Indonesia

Scientists have found an unprecedented sample of a rare diamond from the bowels of the Earth called davemaoite.

Sunday Standard

All eyes are expected to focus on Botswana after a diamond that was unearthed from Orapa mines has the scientific community in the Unites States talking not because of its size or color but its mineral composition.

Epoch Times

Scientists discovered an unprecedented mineral in a diamond.

SciTech Daily

For the first time, a high-pressure calcium silicate perovskite (CaSiO3) has been identified as a naturally occurring mineral from Earth’s lower mantle, researchers report.

Missouri State University

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Freethink

Until now, researchers believed the mineral could never be found on the earth's surface.

Inverse

When Oliver Tschauner and colleagues dusted off a sample of volcano-ejected diamond found in a South African mine, they had no idea that they were holding the first-ever natural sample of a new high-pressure mineral from deep within Earth.

Chemical & Engineering News

Study suggests that certain organic compounds in soil could make asbestos fibers more mobile.