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Mogok trip, Myanmar
Mogok trip in Myanmar – Mogok hotel – Mogok Burma ruby
Mogok trip, Myanmar
After arriving at Mandalay airport, head towards Mogok for a 7 hour drive.
Mandatory stop at the checkpoint, a second “visa” is required to enter the province. (not a visa but a special authorization)
Mogok hotel – The day rises.
It is quite cold at night in winter, and hot during the day.
Visit the largest gemstone market in Mogok, near the lake.
The market is open only in the morning (location map)
Welcome to ruby land
The visit of Mogok can not be done without a picture of one of the most famous points of view of the region.
Traditional gem cutting
The energy to turn the wheel is produced with the feet, while the hands are used to polish the stone.
Two gem cutters on a wheel
Traditional gem cutting by foot engine
Women break blocks of marble
Women break blocks of marble to look for precious stones inside: Mogok burma ruby, sapphire and spinel
Panma Gem Market
A small stone market where buyers and sellers meet in the street and negotiate stones. This market is open only in the afternoon, and not every day.
Ruby Rain mine
The mine, seen from above
A miner at work, deep in the mine
From underground to the surface
Alluvial mining
In fact, we are talking here rather about colluvial (A loose accumulation of rock and soil debris at the foot of a slope). The stones have traveled a very short distance between their original location and the watercourse in which they are found. This is easy to identify. The crystalline shapes are still almost perfect and have hardly been affected by the erosion that can be seen on other stones from alluvial deposits.
Here is the famous red spinel
Mogok Burma ruby cave
Unfortunately we have not found rubies, but a lot of Mica
Sunset
