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Pala Gems writes about it Painite Comes to Pala
"in May of 2005 I was told about an area in which contact between carbonate rock and a leucogranite appeared to form painites. I kept in close contact with my partner Han Htun and in August I was told to come view the painites located in two mines about ten miles west of Mogok. The first has been named the Wet Loo mine and the second is Thurein-Taung. I met with the group of geologists, gemologists (FGA), collectors, and dealers that visit me when I come to Yangon, now consisting of about 15 individuals. These are savvy and wonderful people and know as much as anyone else involved with gemstones; anyone who thinks they don’t have access to world information is sadly misinformed. (I say this based on nearly 150 trips to the Far East and over 40 to the African continent in search, among other travels, for gems and minerals.)
This particular meeting with the group was great because, between all of them, they had almost two kilos of material! Crystals, fragments, some cutting rough material, and a few (four) cut gems all less than one carat except one."
And this, they say, was the happy end of a two decade long fruitless search for a gem previously known from just one sample. 'Two kilos' of rough sounds pretty impressive in that context!
This below, does not come from Pala gems. My jaw dropped rather deep seeing the listing sitting innocently on Ebay from a trusted source. Pretty cool... for this gem freak. I wouldn't have been looking for it otherwise - there may have been a couple of these crystals around that escaped Bill Larson's interest, but surely not many.
These things are too rare to be expensive.
Here's the relevant screen shot:
Pala Gems writes about it Painite Comes to Pala
"in May of 2005 I was told about an area in which contact between carbonate rock and a leucogranite appeared to form painites. I kept in close contact with my partner Han Htun and in August I was told to come view the painites located in two mines about ten miles west of Mogok. The first has been named the Wet Loo mine and the second is Thurein-Taung. I met with the group of geologists, gemologists (FGA), collectors, and dealers that visit me when I come to Yangon, now consisting of about 15 individuals. These are savvy and wonderful people and know as much as anyone else involved with gemstones; anyone who thinks they don’t have access to world information is sadly misinformed. (I say this based on nearly 150 trips to the Far East and over 40 to the African continent in search, among other travels, for gems and minerals.)
This particular meeting with the group was great because, between all of them, they had almost two kilos of material! Crystals, fragments, some cutting rough material, and a few (four) cut gems all less than one carat except one."
And this, they say, was the happy end of a two decade long fruitless search for a gem previously known from just one sample. 'Two kilos' of rough sounds pretty impressive in that context!
This below, does not come from Pala gems. My jaw dropped rather deep seeing the listing sitting innocently on Ebay from a trusted source. Pretty cool... for this gem freak. I wouldn't have been looking for it otherwise - there may have been a couple of these crystals around that escaped Bill Larson's interest, but surely not many.
These things are too rare to be expensive.
Here's the relevant screen shot:
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