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Painite & Ruby

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Painite & Ruby

Rare Mineral

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

Gem brown crystals of the extremely rare mineral painite, only known from a very few localities in Burma, associated to very nice pink ruby.

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)

Ruby

Variety Of: 

Corundum

Formula: 
Al2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Hardness: 
9.0
Formula: 
Al2O3
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
9.0
Colour: 
Red

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