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Pyrite from
Mawchi Mine, Hpasawng Township, Bawlakhe District, Kayah State, Myanmar


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mawchi Mine, Hpasawng Township, Bawlakhe District, Kayah State, Myanmar
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:552991
Long-form Identifier:1:3:552991:9
GUID (UUID V4):97e420df-3e34-442f-affc-fb1531cfd261
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
6.6km (4.1 miles) ā“˜Mosakhee prospect, Hpasawng Township, Bawlakhe District, Kayah State, Myanmar
References
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Tinā€“tungsten deposits of Myanmar THAN HTUN1*, THAN HTAY2 & KHIN ZAW3 1 Myanmar Precious Resources Group...Condo, Yangon, Myanmar 2 Myanmar Precious Resources Group, 20 Pyithaya Road, Yangon, Myanmar 3 CODES ARC...in the Myeik (Mergui) district of Myanmar. During the First World War, Myanmar (then British Burma) came...intensive production of wolfram from the Dawei (Tavoy) district. In the period between the two world wars, tinā€“tungsten...products exported from Burma (Table 28.1). In 1939 Myanmar produced 5964 long tons of tin and 4342 long tons
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Mineral Potential of Myanmar SOE WIN* and MARLAR MYO MYINT** Abstract: Myanmar is rich in mineral resources...lead, zinc, silver, tin and tungsten, which form district metallogenic provinces within the six geomorphic-tectonic...of past production and potential mineral wealth Myanmar ranks high among Asian countries. The last few...Myint, 1994) have described the mineral belts of Myanmar and correlated them to the tectonic units and metallogenic...development and mining investment. 1. The Background Myanmar is a country endowed with rich mineral resources
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metallogenic provinces of Myanmar N. J. Gardiner*, L. J. Robb and M. P. Searle Myanmar contains important deposits...(leadā€“zincā€“silver), Monywa (copper) and Mawchi (tinā€“tungsten). Myanmar can be divided into three principal...with massive sulphide-type leadā€“zinc deposits. Myanmar as a jurisdiction remains poorly understood and...Geographic Information System database of known Myanmar deposits, outcrops and mineral occurrences as a...a tool for exploration targeting. Keywords: Myanmar, Burma, Metallogeny, Granite, Tinā€“tungsten, Gold
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geochronology of granites hosting the Mawchi Snā€“W deposit, Myanmar: implications for tectonic setting and... University of Yangon, Yangon, Kamayut 11041, Myanmar 3 CODES ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits...Survey and Mineral Exploration, Naypyitaw 100604, Myanmar 5 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia...*Correspondence: aungzawmyint.myanmar@gmail.com The Mawchi Mine in Myanmar is a historic world-class Snā€“W deposit...Asia, extending from Yunnan in SW China through Myanmar and Thailand, via Malaysia, to the Tin Islands
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mineralization styles and tectonicā€“metallogenic setting in Myanmar KHIN ZAW CODES ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore...Tasmania 7001, Australia Khin.Zaw@utas.edu.au Myanmar is endowed with a great diversity of metallic and...Zaw et al. 1999a, 2014a, b, 2017a, b). Today, Myanmar continues to have potential for the discovery of...and copper Ā± gold mineralization. Despite limited mine output due to a lack of capital funds in the recent...companies are operating leadā€“zincā€“silver mines in Myanmar (Bawdwin, Bawsaing also known as Theingon, Yadanatheingi
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Studies of the Tagu Snā€“W Deposit, Myeik, Southern Myanmar Kyaw Thu Htun 1,2, *, Kotaro Yonezu 1 , Aung Zaw...Naypyitaw 100604, Myanmar Department of Geology, University of Yangon, Yangon 11041, Myanmar; aungzawmyint28@gmail...Abstract: Most of the granite-related Snā€“W deposits in Myanmar are located in the Western Granitoid Province (WGP)...fluid inclusions; immiscibility 1. Introduction Myanmar is endowed with ore deposits of tin, tungsten,...gold, gemstones, zinc, lead, nickel, and silver. Myanmar is one of the countries with the most diverse natural
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INCLUSION AT MAWCHI U KHIN STUDY MINE, OF KAYAH ZAW AND DAW TIN-TUNGSTEN STATE, KHIN Myo MINERALIZATIĀøN...rocks in the Mawchi Introduction mine area have been The Mawchi mine is located in Kayah State, stronglytourmalinizedand...kaolinized. Bothpre- and postorefaultsare foundin the mine Burma, at latitude 18Ćø49'N and longitude97Ćø10'E...the with a generalelevationof 1.1 km (Fig. 1). Mawchi mineralized quartz veinsfrom severalcentimetersup...Burma,whichthen accountedfor 17.4 percentof The mine has been developedby main crosscuts the world outputof
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Chapter 31 The pre-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Myanmar A. J. BARBER1*, KHIN ZAW2 & M. J. CROW3 1 Southeast...in China, through the Shan States and southern Myanmar, Thailand, western Peninsular Malaysia to eastern...ocean ļ¬‚oor. In Thailand to the south and east of Myanmar the broad outlines of this scenario are well established...Sibumasu blocks can be traced into Myanmar. In addition, in Myanmar the Mt Victoria (Mitchell 1989) or... Several ophiolite belts are identiļ¬ed within Myanmar, implying that there are also several other small
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 The tectonic and metallogenic framework of Myanmar: A Tethyan mineral system Nicholas J. Gardiner...Aung, The tectonic and metallogenic framework of Myanmar: A Tethyan mineral system, Ore Geology Reviews...The Tectonic and Metallogenic Framework of Myanmar: A Tethyan Mineral System PT Nicholas J. Gardiner1...Department of Geology, Mandalay University, Mandalay, Myanmar. 9. Presently at: Centre for Exploration Targeting...gardiner@curtin.edu.au 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Abstract Myanmar is perhaps one of the Worldā€™s most prospective
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Pennaichaung and Yetkanzintaung Prospects, Tavoy Township, Tennasserim Division, Southern Burma U Khin Zaw...Yetkanzintaung W-Sn Prospects are located in Tavoy Township, Tennasserim Division, southern Burma. The W-Sn...W-Sn deposits are widely distributed in Tavoy township, Tennasserim Division, Southern Burma. W-Sn mineraliza-...Longitude 98 Ā° 18' near Pagaye village, Tavoy Township and the generalised geology of the Pennaichaung...Yetkanzintaung W-Sn deposits, Tenasserim Division, Tavoy Township, Southern Burma (Modified after Brown and Heron
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Geochemistry of the Kuntabin Tin-Tungsten Deposit in Myanmar Wei Mao,1 Hong Zhong,1,2,ā€  Jiehua Yang,1,ā€  Yanwen...3Myanmar 4State Geosciences Society, Yangon 11041, Myanmar Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou...The Kuntabin Sn-W deposit, located in southern Myanmar, is characterized by abundant greisen-type and...Kuntabin deposit and many other Sn-W deposits in Myanmar are characteristically low compared to porphyry...that granites associated with Sn-W deposits in Myanmar were predominantly derived by melting of ancient
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mineralization along the Kawlinā€“Wuthoā€“Mt Popa arc in Myanmar in the north and the Sumatran volcanic arc in the...mainland SE Asia, which includes Cambodia, Laos PDR, Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra (Indonesia), Thailand...fragments, e.g., Indochina, Sibumasu and West Myanmar terranes, rifted away from the northwestern Gondwana...280ā€“270 Ma; Liu et al., 2012) and the Sepon gold mine in southern Laos (ca. 295ā€“288 Ma) (Cromie et al...volcanogenic sedimentary rocks in the Chatree District. The age of this mid-Carboniferous sedimentary
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Wagone and Hermyingyi A-type granites, southern Myanmar: Implications for tectonic setting, magma evolution...Wagone and Hermyingyi A-type granites, southern Myanmar: Implications for tectonic setting, magma evolution...Wagone and Hermyingyi A-type granites, southern Myanmar: Implications for tectonic setting, magma evolution... University of Yangon, Yangon, Kamayut 11041, Myanmar 3. Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Faculty... Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan 4. State Key Laboratories of Biogeology and Environment Geology
Report (chapter)
Appendix Geochronology in Myanmar (1964ā€“2017) M. J. CROW1* & KHIN ZAW2 1 28A Lenton Road, The Park,...summarizes the published isotopic age data for Myanmar up to early 2017. It is intended as a resource...variety of age dating methods have been applied in Myanmar since the mid-1960s, when Searle & Ba Than Haq...exploration for Cuā€“Au and for Snā€“W deposits in Myanmar, where zircon suites in many granitoids have not...in granitoids from a Cuā€“Au-rich magmatic arc in Myanmar had juvenile ĪµHf values (+7.6 to +11.5) and mantle-like
Report (issue)
- - - - - - - - 16 9. Proportions of total world mine production of tin accounted for by countries having...Countries having greater than 2,000 metric tons of tin mine production in any one of the selected years 1940-8...- - - - - - - - Estimated cumulative and annual mine production of tin, contained in ore and concentrate:...times larger, than was thought when the decision to mine was made. Experts having a sound knowledge of a...Schanz, 1980, p. 313). mining. Typically, placer mine recovery is above 90 percent and may approach 100
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Occurrencesof Wolframite Lodes and Depositsin the Tavoy District in Lower' Burma. Rec. Geol. India, Vol. 43, part...I9I 7. 7. Orifliā€¢hs, I-I. D. The Kanbauk Wolfram Mine. Min. Mag., London, Vol. 17, pp. 211-219, I9I 7...19.. 3/laxwell-Lefroy, ti. Mining in the Tavoy District in Lower Burma. Min. and Sci. Press, San Francisco...Maxwell-l'.efroy,E. Wolframite Mining in the Tavoy District in Lower Burma. Trans. Inst. Min. and Met., London...Hess Describing the Wolfram-tin Deposits of the Mawchi Mines in the Southern Shan States. for I912,
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Accepted Manuscript The crustal architecture of Myanmar imaged through zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotopes:...Christopher J. Spencer , The crustal architecture of Myanmar imaged through zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotopes:...Orogenesis and Metallogeny The crustal architecture of Myanmar imaged through zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotopes:...challenging. Sited in the heart of this region, Myanmar is a highly prospective but poorly explored minerals...and O isotope data from magmatic rocks across Myanmar, which PT we append to the existing dataset to
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Li 1 Textures and trace element composition of pyrite from the Bukit Botol volcanic-hosted massive sulphide...Shao-Yong Jiang 118 Magmatism in the Shapinggou district of the Dabie orogen, China: Implications for the...and Rongqing Zhang 65 Invisible gold in arsenian pyrite from the high-grade Hishikari gold deposit, Japan:...of variation and distribution of Au/As ratios in pyriteā€”Yuichi Morishita, Nobutaka Shimada, and Kazuhiko...analysis: A case study of the Huayuan-Malichang district, Chinaā€”Nan Li, Xianglong Song, Keyan Xiao, Shengmiao
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Geng3 The Tengchong-Lianghe tin metallogenic district in western Yunnan is an important tin mineralization...deposit is one of the largest tin deposits in this district and spatially and temporally associated with Eocene...Zhao, Zhu, Wang, & Cui, 2018). Pre- Lianghe tin district in STMD is an important tin mineralization area...many tin deposits. The tin mineralization in this district is spa- deposit types, geochronology, and geochemistry... 2017; Tang, 1992; Xu, Tengchong-Lianghe tin district and spatially associated with Eocene Zhang, &
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lengthandseveralfeetacross. An exceptional one(Enterprise mine,Wolfram,Queensland) hadreported maximum dimensionsof...amount. Cassiterite, if it occursat all in the district,usuallydoesso in distantquartzveinsrather than...hand. Among associated sulphides arearsenopyrite, pyrite,pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite,tetrahedrite, sphalerite...haveaffected adverselyseveralattemptsto reopenthe mine and developit at greaterdepth. Bamjā€¢ordand l/Voljā€¢rarn...wherethepipeslie closeto thecontact. At oneplace(Larkin mine) 8As at Kingsgate, the contacts with granite exhibit
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........................................... S16 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ S20 Mine Closure.................................................... S12 Pie chart showing estimated world mine production of tin in 2015, by country and amount...tantalum, tin, tungsten, and (or) gold AMD acid mine drainage ATPC Association of Tin Producing Countries...meter ppm part per million QSP quartz-sericite-pyrite SEC U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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issue of R & M. Coloradoā€”Dr. C. N . Eddy, National State Bank Bldg., Boulder, Colo., sent R & M a very fine...of black, crystallized ferberite from the Conger Mine, near Nederland, Boulder Co., Colo. It is good to...would suppose that Colorado, the most mountainous state of the Union, contains sand dunes which extend for...Can anyone supply information on the occurrence? District oĆ­ Columbiaā€”On a recent visit to Washington, the...Hampden Co., Mass. The best specimens occur at the Old Mine. Michiganā€”A nice dark grayish cephalopod from the
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muscovite, ĀÆuorite and rarely topaz. Sulphide minerals, pyrite in particular, are also associated with greisen...cassiteritebearing lepidolite pegmatite, and the Nok Hook mine contains disseminated cassiterite mineralization...Sinpatana are lepidolite pegmatites, and the Sahakit mine (Khao Kao) is a disseminated and quartz vein-hosted...Burmese portion of this belt, vein type deposits at Mawchi (Zaw and Thet 1983) and at the Pennaichaung and...and Yetkanzintaung prospects in Tavoy Township (Zaw 1984). Additional data from reconnaissance investigations
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very large areas, unforeseen economic conditions, state of knowledge of known stanniferous areas, and availability...areas are being found, the geology o:f each new district falls within that predicted from past experience...Alaska 2. Manley Hot Springs, Alaska 3. Sullivan mine, British Columbia, Canada 4. New Brunswick area...Franklin Mountains, Tex. 8. Black Range district, New Mexico 9. Climax mine, Colorado 10. Gorman area, California...Oumgreine avea, Mauritania 6. Iforas area, Mali 7. Air district, Niger 8. Ta walafa area, Sierra Leone 9 . .los
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Sn-Cu ore belt from southwest China to western Myanmar Wenting Huang, Huaying Liang, Jian Zhang, Jing...Sn-Cu ore belt from southwest China to western Myanmar, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10...ore belt from southwest China to western O F Myanmar Wenting Huang1, Huaying Liang1*, Jian Zhang2,...E-W-trending ore belt from southwest China to western Myanmar. We investigated the genesis of the world-class...and adjacent regions PR (northern Vietnam and Myanmar) are an increasing focus of research and exploration
 
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