Supplemental Burma Business Advisory

Although overall exports of base metals from Burma have declined relative to pre- coup levels, according to industry and media reports, 6 regime-controlled state- owned enterprises, Mining Enterprise No. 1 and Mining Enterprise No. 2, continue to extract these resources at low volumes in partnership with PRC firms, among others. …

Telluride-bearing Au-Ag mineralization in the Singu …

Myanmar has more than 300 gold occurrences located in six main tectonic belts, which are (1) porphyry style copper ± gold ± molybdenum and related epithermal gold mineralization in the Wuntho-Popa Arc, (2) orogenic gold mineralization in the Tagaung-Myitkyina Belt, (3) skarn Au (Cu) and gold-quartz veins in marbles and granites within …

Mines Against Humanity | Justice For Myanmar

The Mines Against Humanity report unearths the Australian companies, executives and investors in Myanmar's mining sector under the illegal military junta. The report features …

Rare Earth Mining in Kachin State, Myanmar

Mining rare earths, key metallic elements used in various modern products, including green energy technology, is causing significant environmental destruction and …

Myanmar Ruby Mines

Burmese rubies come from primarily two mines in Myanmar, Mogôk Valley and Möng Hsu. The historic one that has been mined for centuries is Mogôk, while mining in Möng Hsu did not start until the 1990s. Möng …

New report unearths Australian owned and led companies in …

Pro-democracy activists have urged the Australian government to crack down on domestic companies involved in Myanmar's mines, saying these firms are …

Myanmar: Australian mining companies put profit ahead …

MML paid local company Win Myint Mo Industries a US$1.5 million deposit for the option to acquire interest in the mine in 2017. It subsequently went ahead with the acquisition for US$20 million, with MML (51%) in a joint venture with Win Myint Mo Industries (24.5%) and second local partner, East Asia Power (24.5%).

Geology of the High Sulfidation Copper Deposits, Monywa Mine, Myanmar

The 50 km 2 Monywa copper district lies near the Chindwin River within the northward continuation of the Sunda-Andaman magmatic arc through western Myanmar. There are four deposits; Sabetaung, Sabetaung South, Kyisintaung, and the much larger Letpadaung 7 km to the southeast. Following exploration drilling which began in 1959, …

Chapter 1: Introduction to the geology of Myanmar

Myanmar lies at the junction of the Alpine–Himalayan Orogenic Belt and the Indonesian Island Arc System. In northern Myanmar, the orogenic belt is bent around the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis into a north–south direction and passes southwards through the resource-rich Indo-Myanmar Ranges (Kyi Khin et al. 2017,a, b; Hla Htay et al. 2017; …

Landslide hits Myanmar jade mine, killing at least one and …

On July 3, 2020 at least 162 people died in a landslide in the same area, while a November 2015 accident left 113 dead. In that case, the victims died when a 60-metre-high mountain of earth and ...

Myanmar's military has tightened its grip on the jade industry

Some of the mines are run by armed groups fighting the military and local drug lords, according to international observers, though many exist in areas controlled by Myanmar authorities.

Deadly Myanmar mine disaster caused by poor planning, say …

The jade industry in Myanmar is poorly regulated and mine collapses are common, causing many hundreds of deaths since 2004, according to the study authors. But a lack of transparency from the Myanmar authorities — together with political and ethnic conflict in northern Kachin state, where jade mining is centred — means fi…See more on nature

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    Myanmar: Australian mining companies put profit …

    WEBAs protests grow against the military coup in Myanmar, Australian mining companies are carrying on as if nothing happened, writes Allen Jennings.

  • Ruby Land: A Museum Expedition to Mogok | AMNH

    In November 2013 a group of Museum scientists including Curators James Webster and George Harlow and Senior Scientific Assistant Jamie Newman traveled to Mogok, a historic city in northern Myanmar (Burma), to study the region's complex geological evolution on a Constantine S. Niarchos Expedition supported by the Stavros …

    Rare Earth Mining in Kachin State, Myanmar

    Description of the conflict case. Mining rare earths, key metallic elements used in various modern products, including green energy technology, is causing significant environmental destruction and human rights abuses in northern Myanmar. An investigation by the Associated Press (AP) found that the rare earths industry in the country is linked ...

    Geology of an amber locality in the Hukawng Valley, Northern Myanmar …

    Another amber locality in northern Myanmar is of interest. Ngaw (1964) reported that amber was produced between 1948 and 1961, from a site near the Nam Sakhaw stream, 90 km southwest of Noije Bum (Fig. 3).This occurrence was also known in colonial times, as the notation 'amber mines' appears on the old 83-O topographic …

    Main Laws Applicable to the Mining Sector in Myanmar

    This document is intended to provide a brief overview of the main Myanmar laws applicable to the mining sector, and to be useful for those undertaking environmental impact …

    International companies implicated in scramble for Shan

    An Australian-led mining company has carried on searching for gold in eastern Shan State more than one year after its primary investor withdrew from multiple …

    Mining in Myanmar

    Myanmar's territory contains extensive mineral wealth, with deposits present throughout the country. Proven reserves span industrial minerals and stones, heavy metals, jade and …

    Main Laws Applicable to the Mining Sector in Myanmar

    Amended 2017. Summary: The Conservation of Water Resources and Rivers Law aims to conserve and protect water resources and rivers for use by the public and to protect against polluting of waterways. In addition, the Law prohibits the digging of wells without permission. Relevance for the Mining Sector.

    Au Myanmar, l'ONU s'inquiète de la menace des mines …

    Dans son dernier rapport sur la situation humanitaire au Myanmar, le Bureau de coordination des affaires humanitaires de l'ONU ( OCHA) note que pour la première …

    An Ongoing Danger: Death and injury due to landmine and UXO

    1 Myanmar Information Management Unit, Townships with suspected Landmine/ERW Contamination (1999-2020) and Landmine/ERW Casualties in Myanmar (2019), 2020. 2 Tatmadaw refers to the Myanmar military.