“This meteorite had an abundance of carbon in it. And as it slowly cooled down, the iron and carbon came together and formed this mineral,” says Dr Stuart Mills, Museums Victoria's senior curator of geosciences.
Scientists have come across edscottite before, inside smelters. It is one of the phases iron goes through when it is smelted into steel.
But they have never seen it naturally occurring. And minerals only get a name when you can find them in nature.
Scientists have come across edscottite before, inside smelters. It is one of the phases iron goes through when it is smelted into steel.
But they have never seen it naturally occurring. And minerals only get a name when you can find them in nature.