Mineral: | Painite | Chemical Formula: | CaZrBAl9O18 | Size: | | Weight: | | Transparence: | translucent - transparent | Quantity: | | Origin: | near the base of Hinthar Hill, Wetloo quarter, Kyauk Pyat That, west of Mogok, Burma (Myanmar) | Well here you get a fine painite specimen in matrix. The matrix is hosting literally hundreds of small transparent painite crystal mostly intergrown or even twinned. Some showing termination but all have good luster! Also other minerals are present like ruby and some cubic shaped crystal looking like Almandine? A fine matrix specimen for this mineral species!

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