NEW MINERAL DISCOVERED

March 31, 1996
Source: DAILY NEWS, Anchorage, Alaska Credit: J. & L. Nicholson
A vivid blue chunk of rock brought at a roadside stall in Morocco 15 years ago had been identified as a new mineral, but its qualities, which include the ability to change color, are baffling British scientists.

Geologist Anne Grayson was unable to identify the stone after coming across it at a souvenir stall during a field trip. It remained at her home for years until she took it to London's Natural History Museum. Experts there discovered it is made up of millions of crystals that are fibrous on a submicroscopic scale, like asbestos, and could be lethal if inhaled. Containing silicon, aluminum, calcium, magnesium, iron and oxygen, the unnamed mineral changes from purple to blue to cream when rotated.

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