[Rockhounds] Help! Has anyone ever seenor heardof blackTorbernite?

[Axel Emmermann]

Hi Don, 

If you get your hands on a specimen of Vochtenite... Renaud lives about 20
minutes from my house. I might get him to sign a label ;-))))

Cheers

Axel 
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> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Help! Has anyone ever seenor heardof
blackTorbernite?
> 
> 
> > Vochtenite is even rarer than Painite, which used to be the rarest
> > mineral.
> 
> 
> Hi Kreigh,
> 
> Just out of curiosity, where did that info come from?  Sure painite is
> very rare, but there are some minerals that don't even exist any more;
> the entire find was consumed during the description process (of course I
> forget the names, but I knew them once...)
> 
> Such delightful trivia... that would be a cool compilation, a list in
> order of the 100 (or whatever) rarest minerals and the mass of each
> known extant... and something tells me you're going to send a link to
> such a list as soon as you see this!  LOL
> 
> Best,
> Don
> 
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