We’ve created 208 new minerals: Time for a new, human-influenced Anthropocene epoch?

By Nicole Mortillaro | CBC News

Humans have created 208 new minerals, bolstering the argument that the planet has entered a new epoch in its geological history, a study being published today finds.

In the study, published in American Mineralogist, the researchers explain that the influx of minerals is the largest since the increase of oxygen in our atmosphere called the “Great Oxidation” two billion years ago, which helped to produce two-thirds of the 5,208 naturally occurring minerals we know of today.

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