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

[Earl R. Verbeek]

A not-so-trivial qualifier about the Wiki answer to this question is that
the rarest GEM mineral and the rarest mineral are two entirely different
things.  I doubt that painite even comes close to being the rarest mineral.
 And how would you determine that?  By total weight?  Total volume?  Number
of specimens?  That last one is rather "fake" in that specimens can be
subdivided, so it's not a good criterion.

             Cheers!   Earl

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:06:07 -0500, Kreigh Tomaszewski
<Kreigh at Tomaszewski.net> wrote:
> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/ 
> What_is_the_rarest_mineral_on_earth_and_where_is_it_located
> 
> ;-}
> 
> Kreigh
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sunday, Mar 15, 2009, at 21:53 America/Detroit, DonH wrote:
> 
>>
>>> 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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