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Painite

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Description
Locality: 
Kyauk-Pyat-That, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay, Myanmar (former Burma)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 1.9 × 1.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.85cm
Description

Amazing specimen from New Find in Kyauk-Pyat-That near Mogok: very well formed, lustrous, dark brownish-red crystal (~8.5 mm) of very rare Painite on contrastic matrix! Pale red-pink Ruby crystals are also present in matrix - fluorescence strong red in LW UV. Nowelity from Denver Mineral Show 2022.

Mineral Data
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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)

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