{"id":200397,"date":"2024-11-29T03:29:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-worlds-rarest-mineral-is-so-rare-its-only-ever-been-found-once"},"modified":"2024-11-29T03:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:29:39","slug":"the-worlds-rarest-mineral-is-so-rare-its-only-ever-been-found-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-worlds-rarest-mineral-is-so-rare-its-only-ever-been-found-once","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Rarest Mineral Is So Rare It\u2019s Only Ever Been Found Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-rarest-mineral-is-so-rare-its-only-ever-been-found-once2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a mineral so rare that only one specimen of it has ever been found in the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called kyawthuite (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHMLA\/status\/879432327310450688?lang=en\">cha-too-ite<\/a>), a tiny, tawny-hued grain weighing just a third of a gram (1.61 carats). On first glance, you might mistaken it for amber or topaz; but the unassuming mineral speck has value beyond measure.<\/p>\n<p>The stone itself was purchased in 2010 at a market in Chaung-gyi in Myanmar by gemologist Kyaw Thu, who thought the raw gem was a mineral called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scheelite\">scheelite<\/a>. After he faceted the stone, though, he realized that he was looking at something unusual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a mineral so rare that only one specimen of it has ever been found in the entire world. It\u2019s called kyawthuite (cha-too-ite), a tiny, tawny-hued grain weighing just a third of a gram (1.61 carats). On first glance, you might mistaken it for amber or topaz; but the unassuming mineral speck has value beyond [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}