Painite No 2 is displayed at The Natural History Museum of London.
Photo by John Ho FGA
Painite is one of the rarest minerals on the earth. It has been described by the Guinness Book of World Records as the rarest gem mineral. It comes from Mogôk and Namya in Burma and was named after its discoverer, British gemologist Mr. Arthur Charles Davy Pain.
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