Two new never before seen minerals discovered in a massive meteorite that landed in Somalia!

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

They should have named it HAGite

hall of fame post right here.

 

[Mount23]

hall of fame post right here.

What does HAG stand for exactly??

 

[Prince of HS]

What does HAG stand for exactly??

hawiye action group

 

[Bapo]

Ceel Cali kulaha, that’s my Tolka’s land as well.

As soon as I saw Ceel Cali, I thought Gaaljecel.

 

[Shimbiris]

First, Somalia needs a stable state before resources such as minerals can be extracted. In this current form, any mineral extraction would cause environment degradation, resource theft, and civil conflict. Just look at Congo and the situation of our fellow Africans in that resource-rich country. I hope we find our sanity before Somalis can extract resources.

Plus, no one of note is going to seriously invest in a country with so much turbulence and where there are questions about the rule of law and how well contracts are honored. Security and stabilization should be Somalia's number 1 priority before talk of anything else.

 

[Qeelbax]

Perfect opportunity to call it Somalinite and Puntite but of course it was ajnabis that got to it first and they gave it wack ass names
“The new minerals have been named elaliite and elkinstantonite and that meteorite was 15.2tonne.”

 

[Ahmed123-]

A thread was already made about this already the Chinese have already got their hands on it

 

[Qeelbax]

So it crashed 5-7 generations ago and Somalis made poems about it

“
El Ali was found at in a limestone valley 15 kilometres north of El Ali at GPS location 4°17.281’N, 44°53.893’E on September 2020.[1][2] Local pastoralists were aware of the rock for between five and seven generations, and it featured in songs, folklore, dances, and poems.[1] The meteorite was brought to the attention of the international community by Kureym Mining and Rocks Company's staff who were prospecting opals in the area. They identified the rock and started moving it to Mogadishubefore the Somalia government intervened.[1]

It is an IAB meteorite


“The future of the meteorite is uncertain as it has been shipped to China presumably for sale.”

SMH

Look how cool it is

 

[Basra]

It fell in Hawiiya land tho- Hiiraan--- tuff luck for Darood ismael

 

[Nomadic lord]

"Puntite" you can't be serious it fell in hirshabelle/Hiraan.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

@Keep it a boqol 💯

Said it should be called 'HAGITE'

 

[Basra]

Habagidiriette

 

[Nomadic lord]

How much money are we looking at if we play our cards right since these are never-before-seen minerals?

 

[Qeelbax]

"Puntite" you can't be serious it fell in hirshabelle/Hiraan.

Oh I thought it was Eyl

 

[Lebron James]

They already gave them away

 

[Nomadic lord]

They already gave them away

Well there goes my dreams of being wakanda.

 

[Awad]

They already gave them away

Who sold it, the government? Either way nothing productive would have happened if it was left in the hands of Somalis

 

[The alchemist]

The best thing would be to store it in a place and lock it away for years. It's presumably the only space metal of its kind. Rarity itself drives up value, with research, given time, finds useful utility, you're sitting with strong bargaining power as demand will increase tremendously. Whatever the bidders paid was not even a fraction, of a fraction, of its real potential worth. It's similar to how stolen archeological items are sold in the black market.

 

[Nomadic lord]

The best thing would be to store it in a place and lock it away for years. It's presumably the only space metal of its kind. Rarity itself drives up value, with research, given time, finds useful utility, you're sitting with strong bargaining power as demand will increase tremendously. Whatever the bidders paid was not even a fraction, of a fraction, of its real potential worth. It's similar to how stolen archeological items are sold in the black market.

So basically we fumbled the bag.

 

[The alchemist]

So basically we fumbled the bag.

Worse. It's criminal, possibly. I doubt it was done through official measures on a stately setting, since none of the articles of the matter mentions the transactional reports.

They mentioned some miners hunting for opal in 2019 in the region the meteorite was found. This movie from the same year had a plot about opal from Ethiopia:

Was the search for the gemstone prompted by a fucking movie? The whole thing is strange.