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[Manveru Taurënér]

Speaking of Australian minerals, a new type has been discovered!

http://www.sci-news.com/geology/science-putnisite-new-mineral-australia-01869.html

I came here to post it, and found this thread on a mineral quiz from a site in Australia. 

This all falls into the prophecy as told by Armok!  How else could a forum post correlate to such dwarven activities of mining and science?

(I also propose it get included in the game as a light pink mineral, perhaps a lighter shade/high intensity color similar to rose gold?  It is like a quartz, so it would be cool crystaline building material)

The article does have one error in it.  The mineral was obviously named after Putnam for his contributions to the DF community.  They're waiting for an analog of adamantine before naming something after Toady.

If you want to mod this mineral in, I would take chalk or plaster as a starting point since it's about that soft.

Adamantine has already been found actually...

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=137082.0

[Lasander]

Woo! 70% 
DF has certainly boosted my knowledge in geology.  Proof games can be educational and fun.

The only Australia related question I got right was number one and that was due to my interest in anything radioactive.

[DG]

I'm impressed.

As DF adds more realistic processes for current and future features (booze-making might be the next in line for expansion) we'll all be that much more superficially knowledgeable.

[Greiger]

70%  I clearly don't know a damn thing about Australia.   

...I kinda thought queensland was part of Canada...