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Princess Pat Highly Phosphorescent Mineral IDed!

An amazing discovery was made today. Through my contacts at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles I was able to get a previously unknown mineral identified through the process of x-ray diffraction spectroscopy! Previously this highly phosphorescent material was unknown to science. It was one of my lucky finds the first time I visited the Princess Pat Mine nicknamed "raymondite". Now we know it is actually willemite! Quite an oddity for a mine that was primarily for tungsten. 

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