myanmar
Asia, 676,578 km²
Capital: Naypyidaw
1 specimen in collection
Notable mining localities
Principal mineralogical sites associated with collector specimens. Yellow dot indicates an endemic species, found exclusively or in world-class quality at this locality.
  • Mogok Stone Tract Mandalay Region endemic
    Ruby, Sapphire, Spinel, Painite (type locality at Ohngaing), Scapolite, Peridot, Danburite, worked for at least five centuries in marble and gneiss
  • Hpakant (Tawmaw) Kachin State endemic
    Jadeite in serpentinized peridotite, source of imperial jade
  • Mong Hsu Shan State
    Ruby in marble, dark-cored crystals and trapiche growth, opened in the early 1990s
  • Momeik pegmatites Mandalay Region
    Pezzottaite, Johachidolite, Jeremejevite, Hambergite, Phenakite, Petalite, Pollucite, Danburite
  • Bawdwin Mine Shan State
    Galena, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrargyrite, Cobaltite, Linarite, Smithsonite, Baryte, silver-rich volcanic-hosted deposit mined since the early 1400s
  • Mawchi Mine Kayah State
    Cassiterite, Wolframite, one of the major tin and tungsten deposits of the region
Notable locality    Endemic or exclusive world-class locality
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Spinel
Spinel