Talk:Painite

Images from mindat.org

I'm not entirely sure with things like this, but would it be possible to use the image from the following page: http://www.mindat.org/photo-153779.html It does have a Creative Commons license, and can be used for non-commercial purposes? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stuart McN (talk • contribs) 02:10, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Popular culture

Is it worth including a small "painite in popular culture" section, mentioning that painite is one of the rarest and most lucrative minerals that can be found while mining asteroids in the video game Elite: Dangerous? (Honestly, I thought it was a fictional mineral, made up to have something more precious than gold and platinum and palladium - I only just learned tonight that it's real!) 49.193.229.111 (talk) 12:59, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

No. That would come under trivia. Is the mineral mentioned in the game article? If so - is it the same stuff? Vsmith (talk) 23:54, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Painite must not be as rare as previously thought. There are thousands of pieces for sale on ebay (ha ha) for little money such as - "2.31 ct Natural Painite Crystal Mogok Untreated Collectable Rarest Gem..." for $10.. It might be good if a gemologist explain here what these fakes likely are..Flight Risk (talk) 20:56, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Possible removal from list

An entry in List of colors: N–Z contained a link to this page.

The entry is :

• Painite

I don't see any evidence that this color is discussed in this article and plan to delete it from the list per this discussion: Talk:List_of_colors#New_approach_to_review_of_entries

If someone decides that this color should have a section in this article and it is added, I would appreciate a ping.--S Philbrick(Talk) 21:24, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Source not cited?

Stumbled across this page, and the latter half of the "Discovery and Occurrence" section appears to be rather dubious.

"In the 1960's a man by the name of Henry Fouchee started selling fake painite. He was arrested in 1972 when the Westport police swatted his house. The Captain of the Swat Team was Jake Rybchinsky. Fouchee was working with the Russians to fund espionage against America. After being exiled from America Fouchee was killed by KGB agent Dani Schwartz in Myranmar. Soon after half of the worlds painite went missing until some of it was found in an old shed by the Russian countryside."

Given the lack of evidence and the number of grammatical inconsistencies (i.e. "the Westport police swatted his house," "the Swat Team," and "Myranmar"), I'd advocate for these sentences to be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.83.110.210 (talk) 17:34, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Chemical formula

The given chemical formula does not match other sources online, and no reference is cited. Compare to https://www.gemsociety.org/article/painite-jewelry-and-gemstone-information/ as an example. Is there a source for the chemical formula given in the article? I can find a few web pages with the same formula as in the article, but how do we know they are not citing this Wikipedia article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ClarkC162 (talk • contribs) 19:36, 17 December 2021 (UTC)