Rare New Neodymium Mineral Unearthed at Canada's Legendary Mont

Rare New Neodymium Mineral Unearthed at Canada's Legendary Mont

Deep inside one of the world’s most celebrated mineral localities, a tiny, colourless crystal has turned out to be an entirely new species of mineral — and one of the rarest kinds on Earth. Researchers at the Canadian Museum of Nature, working with colleagues at the Canadian Conservation Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have described piilonenite-(Nd), a neodymium-dominant sodium carbonate hydrate with the ideal formula NaNd(…