Mysterious minerals discovered in diamonds South Africa

A single stone lies within a diamond containing a mineral never before discovered by scientists.

The new substance is said to be able to reveal unusual chemical reactions that appear in the mantle, the Earth's layer between the planet's outer shell and core.

Strange minerals have just been discovered.

Scientists say they have unearthed diamonds from a volcano in South Africa called Koffiefontein . One of the diamonds found, the scientists discovered a special feature is a strange green inside this diamond, taken at a depth of 170 km underground.

They named the new mineral "goldschmidtite" extracted from a South African diamond, a name honoring the famous chemist Victor Moritz Goldschmidt.

The entire crust of the Earth is about 2,900 km thick. The intense pressure and heat in the upper mantle transforms carbon mines into sparkling diamonds. By analyzing the minerals in diamonds, scientists can look at the chemical processes that occur beneath the Earth's crust.

The study authors noted that goldschmidtite has a very special chemical composition.

"Goldschmidtite has high concentrations of niobium, potassium, rare earth lanthanum and cerium, while the rest of the coating is dominated by other elements, such as magnesium and iron," study co-author Nicole Meyer, graduate student at the University of Alberta in Canada, said.

Potassium and niobium account for the majority of special minerals, meaning that relatively rare elements are combined and concentrated to form unusual substances, although other neighboring elements are more abundant.

"Goldschmidtite is very unusual in diamond and gives us a snapshot of the fluid processes that affect the roots of continents , " said chemist Graham Pearson, instructor for Nicole Meyer.

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