GIT 2016 Pre-Conference Field Trip to Mogok, Myanmar November 2016

Gemological Characterization of Peridot from Pyaung-Gaung in Mogok, Myanmar

“…The Pyaung-Gaung peridot mining area is located approximately 10 km north-northwest of the town of Mogok (again, see figure 2) and situated on a ridge along Taung Me Mountain, the highest mountain in the Mogok metamorphic complex, underlain by large granitic intrusives of biotite microgranite (Kabaing) (Iyer, 1953;Harlow and Thu, 2014;Sripoonjan et al, 2017). Kyaw suggested that the Kabaing granite intruded into the peridotite at Pyaung-Gaung, , Themelis (2008), andKan-Nyunt et al (2013) N indicating the possible emplacement of ultramafic rocks during the early Jurassic and generally earlier than the Mogok Metamorphic Belt.…”