“It’s 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 measure.”

    • Flying Squid
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      242 days ago

      I was in on it early, so I have no excuse other than I need to read more carefully next time. Which I probably won’t remember to do next time.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 day ago

        It’s all good, if you didn’t get it wronf, none would have corrected you and 99/100 that didn’t read the story wouldn’t know. You provided us 35 seconds of insight second hand.

      • @RamblingPanda
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        152 days ago

        Can someone tldr the whole thing? I’m too lazy to read the title, comments or article.

        (No please don’t, I read it, I’m just here for cheap jokes and giggles)

        • @[email protected]OP
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          182 days ago

          Guy found an interesting rock in a gemstone market in Myanmar, thought it was one thing, made it pretty, found out not only was it something else, it was something never before seen in nature.

          Naturally, now it lives in Los Angeles.

        • Zier
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          112 days ago

          tldr, there was a man from Nantucket…

        • Flying Squid
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          42 days ago

          I only read the above comment up to ‘tldr’ and skimmed the rest so the tldr is that the world’s rarest mineral is so rare that it’s only ever been found once!