It was found in Northwest Africa, and it's a "bended" diamond that was partially converted from lonsdaleite, which can only produced at high temperature and moderate pressure...and as the pressure decreased some of it turned to a diamond. A hexagonal diamond.
That's even harder than regular diamonds.
That or it's going to wake up and turn into a Crystal Gem.
If we can duplicate this it might have some uses. But creating it appears to have required a collision between a dwarf planet and a "sizeable" asteroid so this might be hard.
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