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168 TL· Ruby Mines of Burma.
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relations between them and the Company's officers are of the most
friendly character. Since the Company commenced working, the towns of
Mogok and the villages of Kathe and Kyat-pyin, have increased and
prospered in a most remarkable manner.
Two
or three years ago there was a discovery of Ruby-bearing ground near
Mogoung, the old penal settlement in the north of Burma, now reached by
a railway. The centre of the new workings is the village of Nanyaseik,
54 miles from Mogoung. In April, 1896, there were about 1000 men at
work in the new " Stone-tract," digging on the Twinlone and Loodwin
systems, in the midst of a dense jungle. The conditions under which the
Rubies occur are described by Dr. Warth as similar to those of Mogok ;
but the stones are said to be mostly flat, and to exhibit a peculiar
frosted appearance. Rubies have also been reported from other
localities near Mogoung.
In
addition to the workings near Mogok and Mogoung, there are also Ruby
mines—which have long been worked on a small scale—at Sagyin, about 15
miles to the north of Mandalay, where a beautiful white marble is also
found and worked especially for sacred images.
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