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Hinthar Hill, Wetloo quarter, Kyauk-Pyat-Thet, Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar) Specimen 5x5mm A crystal fragment of what was once considered the rarest gem in the world I used flash to bring out the colour, the 2 child photos are in sunlight |
| © J.J. Evans | Photo ID: 209528 View Count: 184 |
Painite : CaZrAl9[O15|BO3], Corundum (Var: Ruby) : Al2O3 | |
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Hinthar Hill, Wetloo quarter, Kyauk-Pyat-Thet, Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar) 4x4 cm side of large pebble, composed by painite with ruby inclusions. Crystaline faces of painite are wisible. Minor associating minerals are small crystals of dark-brown rutile and brown to yellow limonite films with muscovite flakes (apparently this rock initially was enriched with pyrite). Whole specimen size is 4.7x4.5x3.3 cm and weight 97 g. ... |
| © Pavel M. Kartashov | Photo ID: 191443 View Count: 133 |
Painite : CaZrAl9[O15|BO3], Corundum (Var: Ruby) : Al2O3 | |
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Hinthar Hill, Wetloo quarter, Kyauk-Pyat-Thet, Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar) 4x3 cm side of large pebble, composed by painite with ruby inclusions. Crystaline faces of painite are wisible. Minor associating minerals are green fine-fibrous agregates of unidentified chromian amphibole and small crystals of dark-brown rutile. Whole specimen size is 4.7x4.5x3.3 cm and weight 97 g. Specimen obtained from Sieghard Ellenberger ... |
| © Pavel M. Kartashov | Photo ID: 191441 View Count: 111 |
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Hinthar Hill, Wetloo quarter, Kyauk-Pyat-Thet, Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar) Painite with Ruby (2007). Vasco Trancoso collection and photo. Overall (please see child photo) size: 4.3 × 2.6 × 2.4 cm. Main crystal size: 1 × 0.2 cm Parallel growths of painite crystals that are well defined for the species. The painites are almost transparent, have very good color (brownish orange) and luster (vitreous), and they are ... |
| © vasco trancoso | Photo ID: 257070 View Count: 37 |
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Hinthar Hill, Wetloo quarter, Kyauk-Pyat-Thet, Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar) Parallel growths of crystals that are very big and well defined for the species. They have very good color and luster, and they are with Corundum (Ruby) on matrix. Only a few specimens of this very rare species appeared and there were no further finds so we consider it exceptional. Hinthar Hill, Wetloo, Mogok, Mandalay, Myanmar. Found in ... |
| © fabreminerals.com | Photo ID: 256991 View Count: 32 |
Painite : CaZrAl9[O15|BO3] | |
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Hinthar Hill, Wetloo quarter, Kyauk-Pyat-Thet, Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar) Here we have a real beauty, a gemmy Painite crystal with a complex termination, a lucky find on eBay, the recent finds have made Painite seem not as rare as it used to be, theres lots of it on eBay now, but if you look you will see they are just fragments, how many terminated crystals can you see! The photo was taken using natural sunlight and ... |
| © J.J. Evans | Photo ID: 266615 View Count: 31 |
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