Archive for August 10th, 2013

International research team discovers new mineral

Geologists at the University of California, Riverside have discovered a new mineral, cubic boron nitride, which they have named “qingsongite.”   The discovery, made in 2009, was officially approved this week by the International Mineralogical Association.   The UC Riverside geologists, Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya and Harry Green in the Department of Earth Sciences, were joined by […]