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."
"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."
another way to rip off the rich I assume?
If someone starts with $50 billion, and goes down to a mere $35 billion, can you say they were 'ripped off?'
I think rich people can get ripped off but I also can't argue that $35B isn't still insanely rich.
So this mineral was found in the Mogok region of Myanmar, and the second rarest mineral, painite, was also found in the Mogok region of Myanmar. It sounds like there's something funky going on there geologically speaking, and it's probably not a coincidence that the country had been mostly closed off from the rest of the world for decades.
They have vibranium. Just saying.
Myanmar does have a good quantity of mineral and gemological resources, it wouldn't surprise me if there were even more unique properties there.
Gemological Institute of America (GIA) Laboratory in Bangkok, Thailand
These gemologists seem graphologically confused
Anything else good at the natural history museum in LA?
Yeah, it's pretty nice actually. Cool gardens, gem room, lots of dino and evolution stuff.. Not as big as the AMNH in Manhattan, but they did a good job with their smaller space.