Myaw-pyet, Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar

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Red spinels are mostly produced. Rubies, sapphires and other gems are also found.

At the nearby area the following minerals are found in the alluvium: gem quality grayish scapolite and gray chatoyant scapolite, non-gem quality adularia, gem quality adularescent and chatoyant moonstone, chrysoberyl, fibrolite, iolite and quartz.

Ref: Ted Themelis (2008) Gems and Mines of Mogok, p. 212

Gemstone List

Chrysoberyl Corundum var: Ruby var: Sapphire

Feldspar var: Moonstone Iolite Quartz

Scapolite Sillimanite var: Fibrolite Spinel