Country origin record

Myanmar

Home to the Mogok Stone Tract, a historically central source area for ruby and many associated gemstones.

Evidence statusPublished & sourcedLast reviewed August 15, 2026
OverviewGem relationshipsMap & precisionSources

Evidence-backed overview

A country in the gemstone graph

Home to the Mogok Stone Tract, a historically central source area for ruby and many associated gemstones.

Bidirectional relationships

Documented gemstones

Occurrence and production are separate claims. A production label is date-bounded and does not guarantee quality, origin determination, or market value.

Major source

Ruby

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Historic production documented

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Evidence[1][3]
Historic production

Amethyst

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Historic production documented

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Evidence[2]
Historic production

Blue Sapphire

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Historic production documented

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Evidence[2]
Historic production

Garnet

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Historic production documented

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Evidence[2]
Historic production

Moonstone

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Historic production documented

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Evidence[2]
Historic production

Peridot

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Historic production documented

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Evidence[2]
Historic production

Spinel

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Historic production documented

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Evidence[2]
Historic production

Zircon

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Historic production documented

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Evidence[2]

Within this country

Published places

Gemstone district

Mogok Stone Tract

Mogok is a historically important, marble-associated ruby district; the marker is an approximate locality reference, not a mine coordinate.

Ruby, Spinel, Blue Sapphire, Peridot, Amethyst, Garnet, Zircon, MoonstoneOpen record
Town or city

Mogok

Mogok is a reference town within the larger Mogok Stone Tract.

Supporting hierarchy recordOpen record
Administrative region

Mandalay Region

Mandalay Region is the administrative parent for the Mogok gemstone district.

Supporting hierarchy recordOpen record

Spatial context

Map & coordinate precision

All markers retain their individual precision labels.

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Evidence ledger

Sources & verification

Sources are deduplicated across the geographic record. Current-production claims receive explicit review dates; a map point never substitutes for geological or production evidence.

  1. [1]
    Peter C. Keller. The Rubies of Burma: A Review of the Mogok Stone Tract.

    Gems & Gemology · 1983

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  2. [2]
    Vincent Pardieu, Andrew Lucas, and GIA field team. Mogok Expedition Series, Part 1: The Valley of Rubies.

    Gemological Institute of America · 2014

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  3. [3]
    Palke et al.. Geographic Origin Determination of Ruby.

    Gems & Gemology · 2019

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