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Rock
Corundum
MM_Rock_11_2023
Rock
Geological Survey in Dattaw taung, Mogok township, Mandalay region
Milky white color, fine to medium grained marble with corundum crystal
251.0 ~ 359.2
Million Years (Ma)
Permian and older
Mogok Group
Manual
Mineral Database
6 x 5 x 4
cm
Dattaw taung, Mogok township, Mandalay region
Museum
349.8 ~ 502.1
GPS
Mineral Deposit Area
Geological Survey in Dattaw taung, Mogok township, Mandalay region
Dattaw taung, Mogok township, Mandalay region
The distinctive features of Mogok rubies are their fine pigeon's blood, colour, which resemble the colour of the bright red ring in the iris of the eye of a pigeon. In practice, the colours of Mogok rubies range from light pinkish, red to deep red, which arange to violiet saturations. The chacteristic crystal form from mogok rubies is short prism, however, long hexagonal prisms with pinacoids, combinations of prisms, rhombohedrons and pinacoids area also common. Additional minerals inclusions in mogok rubies are calcite, spinel, zircon, apatite, titanite (sphene), corundum, mica, graphite, boehmite and garnet.
Myanmar (Burma)
Mandalay region
Mogok township
Mr. Khin Maung Lay (Senior Geologist), DGSE
Department of Geological Survey and Mineral Exploration, Naypyitaw, [email protected], [email protected]
Museum
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2023-01-12