Namyazeik, Hpakant Township, Mohnyin District, Kachin State, Myanmar

0.8 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm. Painite was named after its discoverer, British gemologist Arthur Charles Davy Pain. The Guinness Book of World Records has described painite as the rarest gem mineral. Discovered in Burma in the early 1950's, from 1956 until 1979 only three crystals of this hexagonal mineral were known to exist. Not too long ago in Burma, ...

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Small pink dichroic crystal comes from the rare Namya / north Burmese locality. This crystal was acquired by Bill Larson in Myanmar in 2006 according to a Cal Tech blog and was in Bill's private collection until recently (his label remains with the crystal).

Pink-orange Gemmy padparadscha crystal. Collection: Ming Ye. Photo: Li Yu.

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