[Rockhounds] Mineral never seen on Earth found inside Russian meteorite

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Gold hunters in southern Russia might have been disappointed to learn that
the speckled, yellow rock they uncovered was not a sizeable pebble of
valuable metal. Instead, it was a rare piece of space-borne rubble
containing a new mineral that had never before been seen on Earth.

The mineral came from the Uakit meteorite, named for the Russian location
where it was found. Scientists recently presented their discovery of the
meteorite's new mineral, named uakitite, at the Annual Meeting of the
Meteoritical Society
<https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2018/pdf/6252.pdf> in Moscow.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/08/06/mineral-never-seen-on-earth-found-inside-russian-meteorite.html