Article: Mineral mania; scientists crack the case of a masquerading, true-blue mineral. (aernite) (includes information on other rocks)

If you bought a hunk of blue rock at a souvenir shop, took it home for rigorous study, and found no mention of it in the most well-known encyclopedias, you'd announce your find to the world. You'd tout your discovery like it was gold!

That's just what a sharp, young British geologist named Anna Grayson did. The blue rock she discovered - the size of a brick and the weight of a kitten - appeared to be an entirely new mineral, one of the basic materials that makes up Earth. Eureka!

But sometimes good science works in strange ways. Now, armed with the results of dozens of tests conducted with the latest high-tech instruments, scientists have a different ...

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