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Painite

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Description
Locality: 
Wet-loo, Kyauk-Pyat-That, Mogok, Pyin-Oo-Lwin, Mandalay, Myanmar (former Burma)
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 2.3 × 0.7 cm
Description

Painite is surely the most important mineralogical discovery of 2006. It is a very, very rare species and, in the past, only few pieces had been found.

Recent finds in Myanmar have yielded only a few more pieces.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Painite

Formula: 
CaZrAl9(BO3)O15
Strunz: 
6.AB.85
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
8.0
Type Locality: 
Ohngaing (Ohn Gaing; Ohn Kai), Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar)