A rare mineral, that only forms when meteorites slam into the earth’s crust, has been found in Western Australia—making it the first discovery in the country and the sixth discovery worldwide.
A geology student, Morgan Cox, discovered the mineral while testing drill core samples from the buried Woodleigh impact crater near Shark Bay, which had been stored in a shed since 2001.
Senior research fellow, Aaron Cavosie, says it is a microscopic mineral and all of the known occurrences on earth would probably amount to the size of a grain of rice.