“A group of scientists in 2021 discovered a hitherto unknown mineral in the Koryak-Kamchatka platinum belt.
It was named kufarite in honor of Farid Shakirovich Kutyev, a former employee of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a brilliant specialist in the field of ore genesis, "RIA Novosti quotes the director of the institute, Alexei Ozerov.
The new mineral contains platinum and lead.
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