Grew helps international team report a new boron mineral from Tibet
Edward Grew, research professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, has helped a team of Chinese and Italian scientists obtain official recognition of a new boron mineral discovered as nano-inclusions in chromite deposits from a mine in Tibet. The new mineral has been approved by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification of the International Mineralogical Association. The full story is on the School of Earth and Climate Sciences website.