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Painite (incredibly rare doubly-terminated crystals) with Ruby - Hinthar-taung (Hinthar hill), Mandalay Region, Myanmar (Burma)
Painite (incredibly rare doubly-terminated crystals) with Ruby - Hinthar-taung (Hinthar hill), Mandalay Region, Myanmar (Burma) Painite (incredibly rare doubly-terminated crystals) with Ruby - Hinthar-taung (Hinthar hill), Mandalay Region, Myanmar (Burma) Painite (incredibly rare doubly-terminated crystals) with Ruby - Hinthar-taung (Hinthar hill), Mandalay Region, Myanmar (Burma) Painite (incredibly rare doubly-terminated crystals) with Ruby - Hinthar-taung (Hinthar hill), Mandalay Region, Myanmar (Burma) Painite (incredibly rare doubly-terminated crystals) with Ruby - Hinthar-taung (Hinthar hill), Mandalay Region, Myanmar (Burma)
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Painite (incredibly rare doubly-terminated crystals) with Ruby - Hinthar-taung (Hinthar hill), Mandalay Region, Myanmar (Burma) (Ref: 1015400010)

Hinthar-taung (Hinthar hill), Wet-loo (Wetloo), Kyauk-Pyat-That, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar (Burma)
27mm x 18mm x 11mm
minID: 483-KKR
Painite is considered one of the Holy Grails of rare minerals. It is truly one of the rarest minerals on the planet. It was named in 1957 after its discoverer, British gemologist Arthur Charles Davy Pain. The Guinness Book of World Records has described Painite as THE rarest gem mineral in exist
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