@urban.sterling: The first painite was found in the the 1950s, a British mineralogist named Arthur C.D. Pain was digging around in Myanmar (then Burma). He found a dark, brownish-red crystal and assumed it was just a slightly weird Ruby. The region is famous for them, and visually, it looked the part. It wasn’t until he sent it to the Natural History Museum in London that scientists realised they were looking at a completely unknown mineral structure. It contained Boron and Zirconium, two elements that essentially hate each other and never hang out together in nature. They named it after him, put it in a glass box, and for decades, it was the only one on Earth. Even today, with the discovery of a new deposit in Myanmar, the vast majority of Painite is opaque, fractured, and completely un-cuttable. Finding a gem-quality piece is still like winning the geological lottery twice in a row.

Did you fart? (but in Italian) :

Tanzanite is 10,000x’s more rare than a diamond

Spencer :

Wood is rarer then diamond

RobotGiggles :

Imagine if you had a painite ring and had to tell this whole story every time someone complimented your ruby

♱⚜️🍁🍄✠𝐕𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊✠🍄🍂⚜️♱ :

So in Minecraft terms. Deepslate emerald.

aliser @🍎 :

can it be artificially made?

TB :

Fun fact: rarest material in the universe is wood

PhantomC :

diamonds aren't rare, they're a commodity

Lois Mae :

I own a Painite specimen! It's miniscule and I paid about $200 for it! I got it from a reputable seller at the Tucson Gem Show two years ago!

Carl Emmanuel :

Nobody thinks diamonds are rare. Because they aren't rare.

Hyp€r777 :

kyawthuite is rarer

Fontaines D.C. fan #21769 :

WAS THAT A METAL PIPE FALLING SOUND EFFECT I HEARD

goldenpineapple97 :

Diamonds aren’t rare at all

Dean :

nah i mine tons of this stuff in space dw guys. (please someone get this reference)

Sydney :

Lost :

Hmmm...

Escherichia coli :

Massive price tag just for it to look damn near identical to any other zircon crystal to anyone who isn’t a geologist.

Not a Seagull :

Diamonds are the most common gemstone on earth

Chipmunkrhapsody :

It’s 2 am in California and yet, here I’m , learning about rocks:) thank you for your content :))

DariusBrogan :

Ha! Joke's on you! I live with a gem hound, so I DID know what painite was 😁

Athena Kipen :

I remember being obsessed with gemstones as a kid and learning about painite in a DK gemstone book. I was always so salty that the book did not include a picture of it, and it was mentioned briefly in a 30 word paragraph hidden at the bottom of the page. Don’t just mention that only two of those stones exist then give me nothing XD

cosnek :

they wanted to make a control rod😔✌

Solaire :

Would this not be more common near fault lines

Rooki :

So like just a extra shiny rock ;-;

Ugnius :

Diamond isn't rare