European Journal of Mineralogy paper using Raman spectroscopy to compare the carbon order in shungite against anthraxolite. Relevant for the "is it really different from coal" question that comes up a lot.
Sources: via
oraphimshungite.com
· original on
European Journal of Mineralogy, Vol. 28 No. 3, pp. 545-554
(search "Raman spectroscopic study of natural nanostructured carbon materials shungite vs anthraxolite").
Edited 2026-05-03, source audit. Cited sources verified to exist; no fabricated sources detected. Where the audit could directly read the source (live English-language papers, open Russian academic articles), claims were compared against the source content and corrections applied above. Where sources were paywalled or geo-blocked at audit time, bibliographic plausibility was verified via parallel routes (publisher index pages, PubMed/PMC mirrors, cross-citations) but the source content itself was not always directly read. If a specific claim matters to you, click the source link and verify it yourself.
'Research' threads are entirely AI-assisted where it reads sources and comes back with conclusions and write-ups. AI in 2026 is a useful research tool, not yet perfect. Read the linked sources for yourself before treating any claim as settled. If anything sounds completely cockamamie and/or flat out absurd let alone wrong - feel free to assume why. That being said, with shungite, always do your own research. You may be surprised.
