According to the California Institute of Technology's mineral database, it is a small deep orange gemstone. The International ...

The world's rarest gemstone is made of kyawthuite, a transparent reddish-orange mineral that’s known from just one sample ...

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Finesell/Shutterstock.comThe International Mineralogical Association recognizes 6,000 minerals, and many of them, such as garnet, are abundant. But the rarest mineral found on earth is kyawthuite.

The discovery, made in 2009, was officially approved this week by the International Mineralogical Association. The UC Riverside geologists, Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya and Harry Green in the ...

The discovery, made in 2009, was approved by the International Mineralogical Association. The geologists were joined by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ...

Rubinite was officially approved in March 2017 by the International Mineralogical Association. Share: Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIN Email. FULL STORY.

Named for the region in Tanzania where it comes from, the International Mineralogical Association has declared merelaniite Mineral of the Year for 2016. The mineral was first noted by a teenage ...

Davemaoite was named in honor of Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao – a prominent experimental high-pressure geophysicist – and confirmed as a new mineral by the International Mineralogical Association.

The International Mineralogical Association (IMA) has officially recognised a new mineral – ehrigite – named after BHP superintendent for geometallurgy, Dr Kathy Ehrig, honouring her decades ...

Under the rules of set down by the International Mineralogical Association, a mineral cannot be given a formal name until a specimen has been found and examined first hand.