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Forsterite from
Pyaung Gaung, Bernardmyo, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar


Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pyaung Gaung, Bernardmyo, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1270509
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1270509:2
GUID (UUID V4):f47da7b6-2a27-4f2d-b605-5844b29900c2
Localities for Forsterite in this Region
Myasein Taung, Pyaung Gaung, Bernardmyo, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
Nearest other occurrences of Forsterite
0.1km (0.1 miles) ā“˜Myasein Taung, Pyaung Gaung, Bernardmyo, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
1.1km (0.7 miles) ā“˜Zalat-taung, Bernardmyo, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
2.0km (1.2 miles) ā“˜Htin-shu-taung, Bernardmyo, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
2.1km (1.3 miles) ā“˜Le-taw, Bernardmyo, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
2.3km (1.4 miles) ā“˜Panlin, Bernardmyo, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
8.2km (5.1 miles) ā“˜Ohngaing, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
81.4km (50.6 miles) ā“˜Yet-Kan-Zin-Taung (Yetkansin Taung), Madaya Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Thesis/Dissertation
Geology and Gems of Mogok Area, Pyin Oo Lwin District, Mandalay Region 1 Tin Zaw Oo and 2 Nwe Ni Win ... Abstract Mogok area is situated about 200 km north of Mandalay and 148 km northeast of Shwebo. The study...96Ėš10'-96Ėš45' E longitude. Mogok can be easily accessed by car in 5-6 hours drive from Mandalay, depending on the...conditions. Geologically, the Mogok gems mining area is situated within the Mogok Metamorphic Belt (MMB). The...peridotite-dunite, as well as pegmatite dykes. Mogok gems are born in metamorphic, igneous and in skarn-contact
Report (chapter)
deposits of Myanmar KYAW THU1* & KHIN ZAW2 1 Macle Gem Trade Laboratory, Yangon, Myanmar 2 CODES ARC...brieļ¬‚y the origins of the major gem deposits in Myanmar. Myanmar is fortunate in containing world-class gem...pigeonā€™s-blood-coloured ruby from the Mogok Stone Tract in Mandalay Division, the Mong Hsu ruby deposit...purposes of description the gemstone deposits in Myanmar are classiļ¬ed into: (1) primary hard-rock deposits...Examples of the primary-type gems are ruby in marble (Mogok, Mong Hsu and Sagyin), sapphire in syenite pegmatite
Journal (issue)
MOGOK! L L The Mineralogical Record JANUARYā€“FEBRUARY 2022 ā€¢ VOLUME 53 ā€¢ NUMBER 1 ā€¢ $25 KRISTALLE...Articles History, Mines and Minerals of the Mogok Stone Tract, Mandalay Division, Burma .......................nicknamed ā€œThe King of Mogokā€ and more recently the ā€œKing of Freedom,ā€ from Mogok, Burma. Federico Barlocher... History, Mines and Minerals of The Mogok Stone Tract Mandalay Division, Burma Thomas P. Moore1 Mark...Mark Mauthner2 Wendell Wilson3 Mogok has been famous for over two thousand years as the source of the worldā€™s
Report (issue)
the Manyara Region, Tanzania; brilliant red spinel octahedrons from Mahenge, Morogoro Region, Tanzania;...priced at $750. Spinel, 4.8 cm, from Ruaha, Manyara Region, Tanzania. Marin Mineral Company specimen and photo...Prehnite, 3.2 cm, from the Merelani mines, Manyara Region, Tanzania. Marin Mineral Company specimen and photo...brookite specimens reach the market from the Kharan District, Balochistan, southwestern Pakistan. Some specimens...Alpine-type clefts in unspecified places in the Kharan District. A mighty surge in 2004 brought thousands of brookite
Journal (issue)
INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Burmese Sapphire and Peridot from Mogok History of Emerald Mining at Habachtal, Part I New...EDITORIAL 291 Burmese Blue Sapphire and Peridot from Mogok and a History of Emerald Mining in Habachtal, Austria...FEATURE ARTICLES p. 300 292 Blue Sapphires from Mogok, Myanmar: A Gemological Review Wasura Soonthorntantikul...gemological analysis of blue Burmese sapphires from Mogok, based on a series of field expeditions over the...Gemological Characterization of Peridot from Pyaung-Gaung in Mogok, Myanmar Montira Seneewong-Na-Ayutthaya, Wassana
Report (chapter)
Chapter 6 The maļ¬cā€“ultramaļ¬c (ophiolitic) rocks of Myanmar HLA HTAY1*, KHIN ZAW2 & THAN THAN OO1 1 Geology...Geology Department, Dagon University, Yangon, Myanmar 2 CODES ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits,...and ultramaļ¬c rocks are widely distributed in Myanmar and form major tectonic belts and suture zones...characteristics of the maļ¬c and ultramaļ¬c rocks in Myanmar are reviewed and described, and their tectonic...applied to the classiļ¬cation of ophiolites in Myanmar (Table 6.1). The nature, location, geological setting
Report (issue)
Forsterite Mg2 SiO4 c 2001 Ā° Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point...(1) 41.72 1.11 57.83 Total 100.66 (1) Mogok district, Myanmar; corresponds to (Mg2:02 Fe2+ 0:02 )Ā§=2:04...Mt. Itkul, Ural Mountains, Russia. In the Eifel district, Germany, at Forstberg. In the USA, in Arizona...Buell Park, Apache Co. In the Mogok district and at Pyaung Gaung, Myanmar (Burma). Exceptional gemmy crystals...temperature and pressure on the crystal structure of forsterite. Amer. Mineral., 61, 1280{1293. All rights reserved
Journal (issue)
Multi-colour-temperature lamp|PL-Inspector|AGTA report on Myanmar|ASEAN Gem & Jewelry Review|Atypical pearl culturing...pink fluorite from Illinois, USA| Colourless forsterite from Vietnam|Sapphire from Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar|...Entremont and Jean-Pierre Gauthier 436 Excursions Mogok, Myanmar: November 2016 444 Conferences AGA Tucson|GIT|Jewelry...on Myanmar Gem Sector In October 2016, the American Gem Trade Association led a visit to Myanmar that...AGTA released a white paper titled ā€˜Step by Step: Myanmar Gem Sector Emerges from Isolation and U.S. Sanctionsā€™
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ferromagnesian olivines, covering the whole range from forsterite Mg2SiO4 (Fo100) to fayalite Fe2SiO4 (Fo0) and...predicted by molecular ļ¬eld theory, while the forsterite end-member is diamagnetic (XHF = āˆ’ 6.8 10āˆ’ 10...x)2SiO4] between fayalite [Fo0 = Fe2SiO4] and forsterite [Fo100 = Mg2SiO4]. Mgā€“Fe olivine is abundant...predicted from its iron content (Syono, 1960): pure forsterite should be diamagnetic while pure fayalite should...Mgā€“ Fe olivines covering the full range between forsterite and fayalite. The primary goal of these new investigations
Journal (issue)
stoneā€“producing regions included: Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam), Africa (Tanzania, Kenya...consumers. These included ruby from Mong Hsu, Myanmar (Burma); blue and pink sapphires from Madagascar;...the country rather than to the specific mine or region. For more on the specific localities, consult tables...mines have prompted active exploration in this region (Schwarz, 1999). Emerald mining also continued...other three rings are set with star rubies from Myanmar (7.90, 6.02, and about 15 ct, from bottom right
Journal (issue)
where [ was met by several of my contacts from Mogok at the airport, and we made plans to meet the following...apatite. 1 also purchased more of these later in Mandalay. As usual, [ was given three diffe rent locales:...wi th a lot of gem pe ridot crysta ls fro m Pyaung Gaung a nd some matrix coru ndum from O:it Taw. This...the Mogok region in early June 200 I . My contacts reported that the various gem markets in Mogok had...position. Thi s trip I d id no t see any pargasite. forsterite, or hercyn ite crystals. and v irtually nothing
Journal (issue)
No. 4 EDITORIAL 399 Low-Temperature Heating of Mogok Ruby, Copper-Diffused Feldspar, Porcelain-Treated...in pink diamond ā€¢ Aegirine in poudretteite from Myanmar ā€¢ ā€œElectromagnetic waveā€ inclusion in Mong Hsu...International Grossular from Mogok with strong red fluorescence ā€¢ Hellandite inclusion in a Mogok ruby ā€¢ Quartzite...reserved. ISSN 0016-626X Low-Temperature Heating of Mogok Ruby, Copper-Diffused Feldspar, Porcelain-Treated...inclusions ā€œMany types of solid inclusions in Mogok ruby in Mogok ruby samples, including calcite, mica, spinel
Book
Rare-earth minerals in the Alpine ar,d Subalpine region [Switzerland,Austria and Iti:Jy](by C. M. Gramaccioli)...Cassedanne) 8:382-387 Amethyst from the Thunder Bay region, Ontario (by D. G. Ellion) 13:67-70 New data on...Rybicki) 7:72-77 Chalcanthite from the Helvetia district, Arizona (by G. Robinson) 9:252 Cuprite [from...Arizona (by W. A. Thompson) 11:248-250 The Tombstone district, Cochise County, Arizona (by S. A. Williams) 11:251-257... A. Scovil) 21:99-100 Arizona's Silver mining district (by P. Bancroft & G. Bricker) 21:151-168 The Fat
Book (edition)
lepidolite (trilithionite-polylithionite), olivine (forsterite-fayalite), and wolframite (ferberitehiibnerite)...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g.... canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country names...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing
 
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