Mogok Photo Gallery Update
Myanmar's gem mining area of Mogok was closed to foreign visitors in mid 1999. In mid 2001, however, Burma Partners was granted the rare privilege of taking another photographic journey to this legendary area, with some of the resulting images appearing here and on Page 2. ( To visit our previous Mogok images, please see Mogok)
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A Lisu woman offers her wares in the morning market in the Lay Oo area of Mogok |
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A miner relaxes next to a lebin in Mogok's Inn Gaung area |
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A quarter mile deep in the tunnel mines of Dattaw, miners check the surface calcite after a dynamite blast |
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Reflecting the sun above, water is sprayed in a pit mine to wash byon toward the pumps which will carry the mix to the sifters |
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A kanase women, face covered in the traditional thanaka paste, goes off in search of gems |
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With Pingu Taung (Spider Hill) as a backdrop, kanase pan for gems in a mine's wash-off |
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A flower vendor enjoys a cheroot while awaiting her customers in the morning market |
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Gem gravel washing bins occupy what high ground remains in Inn Gaung |
