Rarest Gems
Monday, Aug 31, 2020, 9:42 am
By:
Tony Williams
#3 Painite
Considered to be the rarest mineral in the world at one time, it is still a very rare commodity. Named after Arthur C.D. Pain, a British mineralogist, who discovered it in Myanmar in the 1950's, there were only three small crystals in existence. Since then, and up until 2005, 22 more crystals were found bringing to the total to 25 crystals, and recently more have been unearthed.
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