Mine detail: Mergui District

Previously called 'PalaukThawbawleik PlacerYadanabon (Namyen)YatanabonTagu'

Location:	Mon State, Burma, Asia
Lat / long:	11.28516, 99.28314
dep_id:	60000427
mrds_id:	DE00319
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Tin, Tungsten
Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	VEIN/STOCKWORK/PLACER
Production size:	Production occurred
Development status:	Producer
Structure:	CONTACT ZONE OF MESOZOIC GRANITE PLUTON; MODERN STREAMS AND ALLUVIAL TERRACES.
Year first produced:	1908
disc_yr:	1905
References:	Deposit:: GRIFFITH, S.V., 1956, TIN AND WOLFRAM IN BURMA, THE MINING MAGAZINE, VOL. 95, NO. 4, P. 212-215. Deposit:: CHHIBBER, H.L., 1934, THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF BURMA, LONDON, MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD., P. 197-201. Deposit:: BENDER, F., 1983, THE GEOLOGY OF BURMA, BERLIN, GEBRUDER BORNTRAEGER, P. 192. Deposit:: KINNEY, G.L, THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF BURMA, PREPRINT FROM THE 1982 U.S. BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS YEARBOOK, P. 4. Deposit:: ROSKILL INFORMATION SERVICES LTD., 1977, THE ECONOMICS OF TUNGSTEN: THIRD EDITION, LONDON ROSKILL INFORMATION SERVICES LTD., P. 127. Deposit:: GOOSENS, P.J., 1978, THE METALLOGENIC PROVINCES OF BURMA; THEIR DEFINITIONS, GEOLOGIC RELATIONSHIPS AND EXTENSION INTO CHINA, INDIA AND THAILAND, IN NUTALAYA, P.I., (ED.), PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA, BANGKOK, NOV. 14-18, 1978, P. 431-495. Deposit:: CHADWICK, J.R., 1982, BURMA - HIGH LEVEL OF UNREALIZED MINERAL POTENTIAL, WORLD MINING, VOL. 35, NO. 5, MAY 1982, P. 52. Deposit:: HOLLAND, T.F. AND FERMOR, L.H., 1910, TUNGSTEN: BURMA, RECORDS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, VOL. 39, P. 279.