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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Scheelite
Formula:Ca(WO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Scheelite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mawchi Mine, Hpasawng Township, Bawlakhe District, Kayah State, Myanmar
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:552989
Long-form Identifier:1:3:552989:6
GUID (UUID V4):cafaf74b-8def-4033-a3cf-7c618fc5ed41
References
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Report (chapter)
Tin–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, tin–tungsten...products exported from Burma (Table 28.1). In 1939 Myanmar produced 5964 long tons of tin and 4342 long tons
Report (chapter)
geochronology of granites hosting the Mawchi Sn–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 Sn–W deposit...Asia, extending from Yunnan in SW China through Myanmar and Thailand, via Malaysia, to the Tin Islands
Report (chapter)
mineralization styles and tectonic–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 ± gold mineralization. Despite limited mine output due to a lack of capital funds in the recent...companies are operating lead–zinc–silver mines in Myanmar (Bawdwin, Bawsaing also known as Theingon, Yadanatheingi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Studies of the Tagu Sn–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 Sn–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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
INCLUSION AT MAWCHI U KHIN STUDY MINE, OF KAYAH ZAW AND DAW TIN-TUNGSTEN STATE, KHIN Myo MINERALIZATI¸N...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 18ø49'N and longitude97ø10'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
Report (chapter)
deposits of Myanmar TOE AUNG KYAW Department of Geological Survey and Mineral Exploration, Myanmar Gems Museum...Museum, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar takdgse@gmail.com Antimony is a ‘critical metal’ in short supply in the...antimony ores in Myanmar reached 9000 metric tons in 2014 (USGS 2015), establishing Myanmar as a significant...to China. The majority of the antimony ore in Myanmar is in syntectonic quartz–stibnite veins and breccias...commercial sources of antimony in Myanmar. The Bawdwin lead–zinc mine has been a source of antimonial lead
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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 ° 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
 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 World’s most prospective
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mineralization along the Kawlin–Wutho–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...280–270 Ma; Liu et al., 2012) and the Sepon gold mine in southern Laos (ca. 295–288 Ma) (Cromie et al...volcanogenic sedimentary rocks in the Chatree District. The age of this mid-Carboniferous sedimentary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
YASTREBOVAet al. (1963) who measured the solubility of scheelite in highly concentrated solutions of LiC1, NaCI...500°C. They found that, although solubilities of scheelite in pure water were very low at high temperature...with respect to temperature, solubilities of scheelite were high in alkali chloride solutions and exhibited...exhibited normal prograde behavior. The measured scheelite solubilities increased with increasing alkali...70 wt% LiCI). Furthermore, the solubility of scheelite depended on the par- THERE IS A considerable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Occurrencesof Wolframite Lodes and Depositsin the Tavoy District in Lower' Burma. Rec. Geol. India, Vol. 43, part...I9I 7. 7. Orifli•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,
Report (issue)
category ........ Estimated cumulative and annual mine production of tungsten contained in ore and concentrate—...For each country having a tungsten deposit or district listed in the ISMI tungsten inventory...........David Sinclair,2 and Earle B. Amey3 ABSTRACT Scheelite and wolframite are the principal minerals currently...also recovered from placer deposits. Most current mine production of tungsten is from vein/ stockwork,...accounted for over three-fourths of the world’s mine production of tungsten. China alone produced about
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
disseminated in greisen alteration. A minor amount of scheelite is present as late, fracture-ÂŽlled alteration...mineralization in feldspathic altered granite, scheelite hosted by garnet-pyroxene skarn and breccia-hosted...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
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
Report (volume)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the range 300-6OO”C at 1 kbar: Calculation of scheelite solubility SCOTTA. WOOD* Department of Geological...literature for scheelite, it is possible to show that the solubility of the mineral scheelite as a simple...complexation of Fe, Mn ( wolframite ) , or Ca ( scheelite ) . INTRODUCTION STUDIESOF FLUID inclusions, stable...studies generally indicate deposition of either scheelite or wolframite from NaK-Ca-Cl solutions with total...Moscow, ID 83843, USA. 1827 The prevalent oxidation state of tungsten in hydrothermal solutions is expected
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tungsten Resources and Potential Extraction from Mine Waste Zhengdong Han , Artem Golev * and Mansour...Tungsten Resources and Potential Extraction from Mine Waste. Minerals 2021, 11, 701. Abstract: Tungsten...minerals of economic importance, are wolframite and scheelite. Secondary tungsten minerals are rare and generated...some toxic elements. In 2020, the world’s tungsten mine production was estimated at 84 kt of tungsten (106...tungsten primary and secondary resources, and tungsten mine waste, including its environmental risks and potential
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Shao-Yong Jiang 118 Magmatism in the Shapinggou district of the Dabie orogen, China: Implications for the...metasomatic evolution of the Jurassic Baoshan scheelite skarn deposit, Nanling, South China—Wen Winston...analysis: A case study of the Huayuan-Malichang district, China—Nan Li, Xianglong Song, Keyan Xiao, Shengmiao...structural setting of mineralisation at Kolomela mine, Northern Cape, South Africa, based on fully-constrained...Haft-Savaran sediment-hosted Zn-Pb deposits, Arak mining district, Iran—Pouria Mahmoodi, Ebrahim Rastad, Abdorrahman
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
across north Vietnam-Northern Laos to western Myanmar till to the Sanjiang Tethyan belt of southwestern...Permian VHMS deposits in Tasik Chini area, Pahang State, Central Belt of Peninsular Malaysia. The VHMS deposits...Nanyangtian tungsten deposit is a super large skarn scheelite deposit in the Laojunshan Sn–W polymetallic ore...reported the discovery of the large-scale Huangtians scheelite deposit and implications for the structural control...E-W-trending ore belt from southwest China to western Myanmar. Huang et al. (2019) reported an E-W-trending Cretaceous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lengthandseveralfeetacross. An exceptional one(Enterprise mine,Wolfram,Queensland) hadreported maximum dimensionsof...in ratiosvaryingfrom 10:1 to 1: 1. Wolfram or scheelite, if present,occursin very subordinate amount.... Cassiterite, if it occursat all in the district,usuallydoesso in distantquartzveinsrather than in the...tourmaline,topaz, monazite,specularite, actinolite,scheelite, calcite,siderite. Exceptfor chlorite, fluoriteand...haveaffected adverselyseveralattemptsto reopenthe mine and developit at greaterdepth. Bamj•ordand l/Volj•rarn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
--The greater part of the surface in the Tavoy District is occupied by an apparentlysingleseriesof argillites...continuationof this series to the north in the Moulmein District is overlain unconformably by the PlateauLimestone...to containnot onlywolfram and cassiteritebut scheelite,molybdeniteand bismuthinite. A feature that strikes...verticaldepthapproaching a thousandfeet. The Merflui District, south of Tavoy, has yielded some wolfram but...stanniferousand do not neec•any comment. The Moulmein District to the north of Tavoy showsseveral ridgesof granite
Report (issue)
........................................... 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...respectively. In 2015, the world’s total estimated mine production of tin was 289,000 metric tons of contained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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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cassiterite,molybdenite,apatite, muscovite,and scheelite. 2, later vein minerals consistingof the metallic...Mr. JamesPlumadore, the mine superintendent, and Mr. Frank L. Smith, the mine manager,were extremelykind...body is locatedapproximatelyone mile north of the mine. As the granite contactis approached,the rocks grade...and 150 foot levels. However,in December,1917, the mine was closeddue to the fact that the mill equipmentwas...The property was idle for 36 years. In 1953, a new mine was started 1,310 feet east of the old workingsby
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Jun-Yi Pan, Jian-Ming Cui, Kai-Han Zhang and Yan Gao State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, Institute...intrusion from the Zhangtiantang-Xihuashan ore district, where an as-yet undiscovered deep intrusion,...advantages of this type of tungsten deposit other than scheelite skarn are not only that it is easier for mining...located in Portugal, is the second largest tungsten mine in Europe and has been active for ca. 130 years...different viewpoints: the magma–hydrothermal transition state and aqueous solution fluid [4,6,22,35,38,39]. The
 
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