The World's Rarest Mineral Is So Rare It's Only Ever Been Found Once
The World's Rarest Mineral Is So Rare It's Only Ever Been Found Once
There's a mineral so rare that only one specimen of it has ever been found in the entire world.
"It's called kyawthuite (cha-too-ite), a tiny, tawny-hued grain weighing just a third of a gram (1.61 carats). On first glance, you might mistaken it for amber or topaz; but the unassuming mineral speck has value beyond measure."
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"This is the rarest mineral in the world. Let's cut off bits to make facets."
People are so fucking weird.
He didn't know until after it was faceted...
"thought the raw gem was a mineral called scheelite. After he faceted the stone, though, he realized that he was looking at something unusual."
This is what I get for only skimming the article.
And this is what I get for reading the comments. NOT having to read the article.
I was in on it early, so I have no excuse other than I need to read more carefully next time. Which I probably won't remember to do next time.
It's all good, if you didn't get it wronf, none would have corrected you and 99/100 that didn't read the story wouldn't know. You provided us 35 seconds of insight second hand.
Well, when you need to be in every thread that's gotta limit your reading time
i hope you learned your lesson
I HAVE LEARNED NOTHING!
yeah me too. i love skimming
Meirl
Like the guy who cut down the oldest know tree to find out how old it was. It wasn't known how old it was at the time. (They have found probably older but don't want to cut them down to find out.)