{"id":21310,"date":"2016-01-28T23:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T07:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/israeli-mining-company-discovers-rare-minerals-near-haifa"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:13:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:13:59","slug":"israeli-mining-company-discovers-rare-minerals-near-haifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/israeli-mining-company-discovers-rare-minerals-near-haifa","title":{"rendered":"Israeli mining company discovers rare minerals near Haifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-mining-company-discovers-rare-minerals-near-haifa.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>(JNS.org) <\/em>Shefa Yamim, an Israeli exploration and mining company, announced that it has discovered rare minerals near Israel\u2019s port city of Haifa.<\/p>\n<p>A report prepared by geologist William Griffin of Australia\u2019s Macquarie University examined the mineral samples of corundum stones sent to him by Shefa Yamim, which found the stones in several sites in the Kishon River. The corundum stones contain a variety of rare minerals, including Moissanite and tistarite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil now, [tistarite] has been found on a single meteorite that came from outer space; this has been the first find in nature in nature of this mineral, whose source is deep inside the Earth,\u201d Shefa Yamim said, <em>Haaretz <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jns.org\/news-briefs\/2016\/1\/28\/israeli-mining-company-discovers-rare-minerals-near-haifa#.VqsJvzjSmpo=\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting (JNS.org) Shefa Yamim, an Israeli exploration and mining company, announced that it has discovered rare minerals near Israel\u2019s port city of Haifa. A report prepared by geologist William Griffin of Australia\u2019s Macquarie University examined the mineral samples of corundum stones sent to him by Shefa Yamim, which found the stones in several sites in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21310","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68685,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21310\/revisions\/68685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}