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Mogok, Burmese valley of rubies and sapphires with Mike Searle

November 13, 2014September 9, 2024 Christopher Spencer

Mike is a Professor at Oxford University and has been working along the Alpine-Himalaya mountain chain for the past thirty years. You can read more about his work here. I had been trying to get permission from the Burmese authorities to travel to Mogok in the northern Shan state and the Jade mines of northern Kachin state […]

Tin & Tungsten Mines in Burma with Nick Gardiner

August 9, 2014November 8, 2014 Christopher Spencer

Burma – or Myanmar – is one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia. It lies at an historically key geographical juncture between India, China and Southeast Asia, and is slowly emerging from decades of oppressive military rule. As a country, it remains extremely attractive to geologists for two principal reasons. Firstly, it is astonishingly […]