{"id":151098,"date":"2022-11-25T16:23:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T22:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/alien-mineral-harder-than-diamond-was-recently-found-in-israel"},"modified":"2022-11-25T16:23:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T22:23:27","slug":"alien-mineral-harder-than-diamond-was-recently-found-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/alien-mineral-harder-than-diamond-was-recently-found-in-israel","title":{"rendered":"Alien Mineral Harder Than Diamond was recently Found In Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alien-mineral-harder-than-diamond-was-recently-found-in-israel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discovery of a completely new mineral this week by the precious stone mining company Shefa Yamim in northern Israel has both geologists and the general public in awe.<\/p>\n<p>Carmeltazite, often known as \u201cCarmel Sapphire,\u201d may be advertised as a mineral more precious than diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>The mineral was discovered encrusted with sapphire during mining in volcanic rock in northern Israel\u2019s Zevulun Valley near Mt. Carmel, and it was aptly named \u201ccarmeltazite\u201d after its discovery site. During density tests, it was determined to be harder than diamond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery of a completely new mineral this week by the precious stone mining company Shefa Yamim in northern Israel has both geologists and the general public in awe. Carmeltazite, often known as \u201cCarmel Sapphire,\u201d may be advertised as a mineral more precious than diamonds. The mineral was discovered encrusted with sapphire during mining in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}