“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.”
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.
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
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.)
another way to rip off the rich I assume?
It is kinda pretty, in a super 1974 kind of way I guess…
It was a different time back then.
Corinthean everything back then. Leather, columns, baby food… everything.
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.
