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Painite from
Ohngaing, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar


Locality type:Mining Area
Classification
Species:Painite
Formula:CaZrAl9(BO3)O15
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Rubyā“˜8 photos of Painite associated with Ruby at this locality.
Spinelā“˜1 photo of Painite associated with Spinel at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Painite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ohngaing, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
Photo GalleryView Gallery (47 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:8343
Long-form Identifier:1:3:8343:0
GUID (UUID V4):6c20a072-e40d-4261-aa30-fea9032689de
Nearest other occurrences of Painite
10.2km (6.4 miles) ā“˜Baw-lon-gyi east, Baw-lon-gyi (Big Ball), Kyatpyin Central, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
10.3km (6.4 miles) ā“˜Baw-lon-gyi west (Bon-lon west), Baw-lon-gyi (Big Ball), Kyatpyin Central, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
10.6km (6.6 miles) ā“˜Hinthar-taung (Hinthar hill), Wet-loo (Wetloo), Kyauk-Pyat-That, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
11.0km (6.8 miles) ā“˜Wet-loo (Wetloo), Kyauk-Pyat-That, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
12.7km (7.9 miles) ā“˜Kyauk-Pyat-That, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
14.1km (8.7 miles) ā“˜Myan Gyi mine (Myaing-Gyi mine), Thurein-taung, Kyauk-Pyat-That, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Azurite, 4.2 cm, from near Kimbwe, Kinsevere district, Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Trinity...diggings are near the village of Kimbwe, Kinsevere district, in the Katanga province of the DRC. The ten miniature-size...Mikeā€™s take on the locality runs as follows: This township has been a recent (past two years) producer of...6 cm (center spray is 4 cm tall), from the Kara Valley, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. Exceptional Minerals specimen...=====================================ļ‚„ Jumbo Painite A link on Bill Larsonā€™s Pala Minerals site (palaminerals
Report (issue)
Painite CaZrAl9O15(BO3) Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point Group: 6/m. Elongated crystals, pseudo-orthorhombic...8.464(2) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Near Ohngaing, Myanmar. 5.76 (vs), 2.520 (vs), 3.70 (s), 2.370 (s)...18.31 68.19 8.33 . 97.57 100.00 (1) Near Ohngaing, Myanmar; by electron microprobe, B determined present... Distribution: From near Ohngaing village, Sagaing, Mogok district, Myanmar (Burma). Name: For Arthur... M.H. Hey, and C.J. Payne (1957) Painite, a new mineral from Mogok, Burma. Mineral. Mag., 31, 420-425
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JUNE 1986, VOL. 50, PP. 267 70 N e w data on painite JAMES E. SHIGLEY Research Department, Gemological...Pasadena, California 91125, USA A crystal of painite discovered in 1979 in a parcel of rough gem spinel...absorption spectra suggest that the red colour of painite is caused principally by Cr 3Ā§ and V3+. ABSTRACT...the type crystal. KEYWORDS: painite, new data, colour, Mogok, Burma. PAINITE is one of the rarest minerals...were from ruby gem gravels near Ohngaing village in the Mogok district of Burma. They were discovered
Journal (issue)
1994 Cover Picture Ruby crystals from Mong Hsu, Myanmar (Burma): the terminated crystal (9mm high) is not...an oxidizing atmosphere for seven hours (see 'Myanmar and its gems - an update' p.3) Upper photo by Shane...Fax: 071 404 8843 J. Gemm., 1994, 24, 1 3 Myanmar* and its gems - an update Robert C. Kammerling1...Canada Fig. 1. The Kingdoms of Pagan in central Myanmar go back almost to the beginning of the Christian...relation to the gemstone production in the area of Mogok and goes further in that it relates the information
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
American Mineralogist, Volume 61, pages 88-94, 1976 Painite, CaZrBlLlrO,rl: Its crystal structureand relationto...Uniuersity of Chicago Chicago, Illinois 60637 Abstract Painite-CazrB[Al,O,s], hexagonalP6s, a :8.715(2), c : 8...Al(3)-O : l.9l4A. The octahedral framework in painite, resistant to attack by acids and bases,suggestsa...thepipewould be lree from obstructions. Introduction Painite is a curious mineral species,first reported by...Claringbull, Hey and Payne (1957) from the ruby minesof Mogok, Burma. It was found as a garnet-red 1.7 gram s
Journal (issue)
City cuts right through the middle of the Mining District. (Continued on page 2) The Moravian Territorial...Chlorargyrite, on and impregnating Sandstone, Silver Reef District, Washington Co., UT, 6 x 5 x 3 cm. Authorā€™s specimen...Sandstone. Figure 3: Geologic map of the Mining District showing the outcrops of the Springdale Sandstone...form the four reefs. I-15 cuts right through the district from the lower left to the upper right. Two cross...mining claim and established the Union Mining District. With the high-grade ores of nearby Pioche on
Journal (issue)
North-West Branch: 1. Knight, F.G.A. South Yorkshire & District Branch: J. I. Platts, F.G.A. Examiners: B. W....familiar lines in the red region at 694.2, 692.8, 668 and 659.2 nm, and in the blue region at 476.5,475 and 468...spectrophotometer, which also covers the ultraviolet region, the result is quite different: at the short-wave...factor is the shape of the transmission in the blue region between 465 and 478 nm. These characteristics of...their transmission maxima in the near ultraviolet region of the spectrum. The transmission ends at 210 nm
Journal (issue)
vs. Mottramite from the Whale Mine, Goodsprings District, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...and defunct locality in the Goodsprings Mining District of Clark County, Nevada. The Whale Mine consisted... one fairly common (catalpleite) and one not (painite), are pictured below: Catapleite An unusual catapleite...Corp. specimen and image. Painite A tiny example of the rare mineral painite, here as a pinkish red mass...mass in matrix, from Ohngaing Village in Mogok, Myanmar. Specimen is 1.7 cm tall, Excalibur Mineral Corp
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
germanium." IDAHOā€”From the Eagle Mine, Mineral Hill District, Lemhi Co., Idaho, we have an attractive specimen...Springfield, Mass., a past president of the Conn. Valley Mineral Club, has collected the following minerals...streams some reaching far to the northwest in the region of the Rocky Mts. "During the past several months...quality, certainly, but very showy specimens for the district." NEBRASKAā€”Small barite xls occur in large numbers...in brilliant orange-or lemon-yellow xls at Lake Valley, Sierra Co., N . Mexico. N E W YORKā€”Harold J. Lienemann
Journal (issue)
August 1952 did we know that this source must be the Mogok stone tract in Burma, for it was then that A. C...one slice and then another removed from the culet region, stipulating only that the remains of his historic...Payne had the the privilege of measuring. Painite I n painite we have the rarest mineral of them all: in...one of the small ruby mines near Ohngaing village in the Mogok district of Burma. M r A. C. D. Pain, who...It is difficult to judge how attractive a cut painite might be. In bulk, the colour was too deep to be
Journal (issue)
Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...what was previously known as the Saint-Michel district, and is now part of the Arrondissement de Vil...quarry should read Francon quarry, Saint-Michel district, MontrĆ©al, QuĆ©bec, Canada. In some publica- 1...Langesundfjords und des umgebenden LarvikitGebietes, Oslo-Region, Norwegen. Mineralien Welt, 7 (4), 21ā€“100 (in German)...(1919). Road material surveys in the city and district of Montreal, Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada
Book (edition)
extensive fields in the prophetically named Kimberley district of Western Australia promise to be of world importance...of the rarest of all gemstones, taaffeite and painite, have been re-analysed using modern techniques...an inner solid region of diameter 2440 km and density about 8 gcm3, and an outer region about 2260 km...rocks. Figure 1.3 Basaltic lava flow of 1944 in a valley leading down to Naples, Italy. The Monte Somma...alumina, alkalis and the rarer elements. If the region is quiescent and all the magma solidifies in the
Book
In the principal one, called the ā€˜tribunal of valley. Very likely the Badakshan mines, now Godā€™ was...excellent coral was being harvested Mediterranean region. At any rate, by land or near Hyeres on the Mediterranean...necklace with turquoise beads comes from Lambayeque Valley on Peruā€™s northern coast, where it was crafted...Emerauld enclining to black, tell ye, the Hukong Valley, is redder than Baltic amĀ¬ it is an oriental emerauld...a source of emerald. The most 1927 the Lataba District of northeast TransĀ¬ popular aquamarine color
Book
localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...ONTARIO Bentley Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley...in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing...clefts are found fairly commonly throughout this region, such that only a handful of notable finds during
Book (volume)
Cambrian | GEM | Estimated age in millions of years oo > 8,000 BELTS The foregoing description of rock...rarer gemstones. The Mogok Stone Tract, as this area is called after the town of Mogok, is one of the most...gem and lithiumbearing pegmatites of the Pala district of San Diego County, California, from which much...the most important being those of the southern district. Although so important in the past they are now...(By courtesy of Sothebys) In the Bundelkhand district of Central Provinces, between the rivers Ken and
Book (edition)
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...byssolite. Mono- coast of North America: Kobuk River Valley, Alaska, clinic, C2/m, a,b,c = 9.89, 18.20, 5.31
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universities, 14 by town or city councils, 13 by district councils or regional boards, and 16 form part...should be of specimens from localities within the region of that museum, or at least from the country concerned...Manganite Auguste-Victoria shaft, Marl-Huls, Ruhr district, FRG Oruro, Bolivia Monteponi, Sardinia, Italy..."Steinkaulenberg" model mine, in the Algenrodt district. The agate occurrences of Oberstein, first recorded...Firmaneiplatz, D-3550 Marbu 06421-282257 Northern district of city, near St Elizabeth's church Wed.-Fri.
Book
SHAPE program available from Eric Dowty, 521 Hidden Valley Road, Kingsport, Tennessee, 37663, USA. The authors...grey in reflected light. Alekseev mine, Sutamskii region, Stanovoi Range, USSR. H= 2.3, Djjj=?, D(;=7.80...Al)802o(OH)4*4H20, 0 Syst=? Monte Chiaro, Taro Valley, Italy. H=?, Dvv,=?, Dp=?, VHIE 08c. Veniale &...E Mon. Porcelanous white. Furnace Creek, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA. H=4.5, Djj4= 2.88,...brown. Balangero serpentinite, Lanzo massif, Lanzo Valley, Piemonte, Italy. H=?, Djjj= 2.98, D(;= 3.098,
Book
(1989): Mineral. J. 14, 279. Flores mine, Huanuni District, Oruru, Bolivia. Agardite-(La) (La,Ca)CuĀ¢(AsO4)3(OH)6Ā°3H20...University of Modena, Italy. Monte Chiaro, Taro Valley, Italy. Veniale, F. & van der Marel, H.W. (1969):...discovery locality, at the Alekseev mine, Sutamskii region, Stanovoi Range, Russia. Lipovetskil, A.G. et al...engineer known for his work in the Limoges Altisite district. Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne, France. Na3k6Ti2[AlSigO26]Cl;...plus Gk. hydor, water, plus calcite. Khakassy District, Siberia, Russia. Bilibin, G. (1926): Soc. Russe
 
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