[rx]

"Whenever you find a new mineral, it means that the actual geological conditions, the chemistry of the rock, was different than what's been found before," Chris Herd, a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, said in a statement"

Aside from its ungrammaticality, the above statement contains the greatest insight I've seen penetrated for many a nanosecond.

PREMISE = CONCLUSION!!!!

[cgbg]

new mineral....means was different that what's been found before

The prof sounds like he is talking to kindergarten students--probably what he has to do with his "diverse" classes these days.

If we had never discovered any minerals then every mineral would be "new" by his definition. ;-)