[Rockhounds] Meteorite found while looking for gold

[Paul]

Man thinks he found gold; he actually found a
rare meteorite By Emma Reed, September 24, 2019
https://www.science101.com/man-thinks-found-gold-rare-meteorite/

Also, elsewhere, edscottite found in meteorite

Extraterrestrial Mineral Never Before Seen

on Earth Found Inside a Famous Meteorite

By Yasemin Saplakoglu, Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/new-extraterrestrial-mineral-edscottite-meteorite.html

Scientists Confirm The Discovery of a Mineral

Never Before Seen in Nature. Science Alert

https://www.sciencealert.com/mineral-never-seen-in-nature-found-buried-in-heart-of-mysterious-meteorite

This meteorite came from the core of another planet.

Inside it, a new mineral By Liam Mannix, The Age

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/this-meteorite-came-from-the-core-of-another-planet-inside-it-a-new-mineral-20190830-p52mhg.html

The paper is:

Ma, C. and Rubin, A.E., 2019. Edscottite, Fe5C2,

a new iron carbide mineral from the Ni-rich

Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite. American

Mineralogist, 104(9), pp.1351-1355.

https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ammin.2019.104.issue-9/am-2019-7102/am-2019-7102.xml

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article/104/9/1351/573345/edscottite-fe5c2-a-new-iron-carbide-mineral-from

Yours,

Paul H.