Lukashenko was gifted a mineral about 4 billion years old
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko was presented with an enderbite mineral during a meeting with polar explorers, BELTA correspondent reports.
The age of this mineral is about 4 billion years. It forms the basis of the Earth's crystalline basement.
The mineral's emergence on the Earth's surface has only been observed in Antarctica. The specimen presented to the head of state was extracted in the vicinity of the Belarusian Antarctic station "Mount Vechernyaya".
Source: belta.by