New Mineral Discovered in United Kingdom: Kernowite


Dec 24, 2020

Kernowite is a new mineral that has been found only in an old specimen collected at a single location in Cornwall, UK.

The only known specimen of kernowite, named after Kernow which is the Cornish word for Cornwall, was collected in the 1700s.

It became part of the Natural History Museum, London’s geological collections in 1964.

http://www.sci-news.com/geology/kernowite-09187.html