When gold hunters in Russia collected the yellowish stone in 2016, they thought it might contain a precious metal. It didn't - but what it did contain was far more rare and valuable.The rock had come from space, and it contained a new, never-before-seen mineral.
It has yet to be officially documented, but scientists have named it uakitite, after the Uakit region in Siberia where the meteorite fell.
Geologists from Ural Federal University, Novosibirsk State University and the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science unveiled their discovery at the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Moscow.
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