'Rock star': Cork boy, 7, is first person in 150 years to find rare piece of quartz
Dr Patrick Roycroft, the geology curator at the National Museum of Ireland, and Dr Bettie Higgs, retired senior geology lecturer at UCC, and chairperson of the Cork Geological Association, present Ben O'Driscoll with a certificate to mark his remarkable find. Pictures: Karl Grabe
Meet the young ‘rock star’ whose once-in-a-lifetime mineral find has rocked the geological world.
Ben O’Driscoll, aged seven, from Mallow in Co Cork, has been officially recognised by the National Museum of Ireland as the first person in 150 years to find a piece of cotterite quartz — the world’s rarest form of quartz — anywhere on planet Earth.
