Sakhan-gyi, Kyauk-Pyat-That, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar)

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The important pegmatite deposit has been known since the British period.
Historically the deposit produced fine and large size minerals, including topaz, beryl and quartz (milky, rose pink and 6-rayed star quartz) often of gem quality. Other gems found here include amazonite, orthoclase, moonstone, danburite, 4-rayed yellowish-brown hessonite, elbaite (rubellite, green, yellow, yellow-orange). Rubies, spinels and sapphires are also recovered from the alluvium.
In September 2001 there were several joint ventures operating the deposit all year around using myaw-dwin and lebin methods to extract gems and minerals from the soft red soil. In November 2003 gem mining was somewhat reduced. - Ted Themelis (2008) Gems and Mines of Mogok

Mineral List

Beryl Cassiterite Corundum var: Ruby var: Sapphire Danburite

Elbaite 'Feldspar Group' Fluorite 'Garnet' Grossular var: Hessonite

Herderite Quartz var: Milky Quartz var: Rose Quartz Scheelite

Spinel Thorite Topaz 'Tourmaline' 'var: Rubellite'

20 entries listed. 11 valid minerals.

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