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Painite

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Description
Locality: 
Ohngaing, Mogok Valley, Mogok, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay, Myanmar (former Burma)
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.8 × 0.7 cm
Description

Partially gem purple crystal of the extremely rare mineral painite, only known from a very few localities in Burma, this one being from the type locality.

Painite was once considered the rarest gem in the world

Chemically, painite is a zirconium borate.

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)

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