A new mineral has been discovered by a team of Russian scientists in the Khibiny Mountains in the Kolsky Poluostrov Peninsula of the Arctic Circle, and it is a very important find indeed, because the mineral actually has the property of being able to absorb radiation from liquid nuclear waste.
The Kolsky Poluostrov Peninsula is also known as the Kola Peninsula, and because the last ice age removed the top sediment layer of the soil there, on the surface the area is extremely rich in various ores and minerals, including apatites, alumina sources, iron ore, mica, titanium ore, phlogopite and vermiculite.
As many as ten new minerals are found every year in the Arctic Circle and one third of discoveries worldwide of previously unknown minerals are made on the Kola Peninsula, however, the scientists haven’t given the new substance a name yet and it is currently simply known as number 27-4. 
