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The Carbon Mineral Challenge
Formation2015
PurposeFinding Earth's Missing Carbon Minerals
Websitemineralchallenge.net


The Carbon Mineral Challenge is a four-year scientific initiative to find new carbon-based minerals on Earth [1]. The impetus for the program stems from research by Dr. Robert Hazen and his colleagues that suggests that as of December 2015 there were approximately 145 "missing" carbon minerals[2]. The research utilizes distribution statistics not unlike methods used to identify new species in biology [3].

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