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Monywa Complex

Plant in Burma with commodities Copper, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Reserves and resources
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10256253
MAS/MILS ID 5460600002
Record type Site
Current site name Monywa Complex
Alternate or previous names Sabetaung/Sebetaung, Kyizintaung/Kyisintaung, Letpandaung/Letpadaung, Letpadaung Taung, Kyisingtaung

Comments on the site names

  • THEIR ARE THREE DEPOSITS IN THIS PROPERTY FILE. THE ALT. NAME RECORD LISTS ALL KNOWN ALT. SPELLINGS.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: 95.16664, 22.11613 (WGS84)
Elevation 1000
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Burma(country)

Federal lands

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country
Burma

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) 95.16664, 22.11613
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Year of first production 1984
Plant type Leach
Plant subcategory Solvent Extraction-Electrowin
Milling method Leach-Solvent-Extract-Electrowin

Mining district

District name Monywa

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Federal Lease

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner No. 2 Mining Enterprise
    Interest 50
    Home office Burma
    Year 1995
    First year 1995
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Ivanhoe Myanmar Holdings Ltd. (Ivanhoe Capital Corp)
    Interest 50
    Home office Canada
    Year 1995
    First year 1995

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1982
    Measured 27000000mt ore
    Demonstrated 27000000mt ore
    Total resources 27000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 1.4 wt-pct Copper Major 1982
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1982
    Total resources 270000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 0.78 wt-pct Copper Major 1982
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1985
    Demonstrated 133000000mt ore
    Total resources 133000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 0.7 wt-pct Copper Major 1985
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1994
    Total resources 300000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 0.66 wt-pct Copper Major 1994
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1995
    Inferred 180000000mt ore
    Total resources 180000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 0.66 wt-pct Copper Major 1995
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1995
    Demonstrated 35000000mt ore
    Total resources 35000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 1.2 wt-pct Copper Major 1995
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1995
    Demonstrated 97000000mt ore
    Total resources 97000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 0.67 wt-pct Copper Major 1995

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THE KYISINGTAUNG, SABETAUNG AND LETPADAUNG OREBODIES ARE CONSIDERED TOGETHER ALONG WITH THE MONYWA CONCENTRATOR AS THE MONYWA COMPLEX. THE REPORTED RESERVES ARE FOR PROVEN WITH NO INFORMATION ON THE DEMONSTRATED RESOURCE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    WORLD MINING, 5/82, P.52.

  • Reserve-Resource

    MINING JOURNAL, 7/13/90, P.26.

  • Reserve-Resource

    MINING JOURNAL, 4/1/94, P.230.

  • Reserve-Resource

    SOUTH-EAST ASIA MINING LETTER, 2/24/95, P.2.

  • Reserve-Resource

    MINERAL EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES IN BURMA, JAPAN, MALAYSIA,

  • Reserve-Resource

    MONGOLIA IN 1995, BY JOHN C. WU, PAGE 1 BURMA (MYANMAR).

  • Reserve-Resource

    (SEE ASIA-PACIFIC EXPLORATION FILE.)

  • Deposit

    CLEGG, E.L.G., THE MINERAL DEPOSITS OF BURMA, TIMES OF INDIA

  • Deposit

    PRESS, BOMBAY, 1944.

  • Deposit

    DP/UN/BUR-72-002/9, UNDP--GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND EXPLORATION

  • Deposit

    OF BURMA, 1978.

  • Deposit

    DP/UN/BUR-72-002/12, UNDP--GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND EXPLORATION

  • Deposit

    TECHNICAL REPORTS 3, GEOLOGY AND EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY

  • Deposit

    OF THE SHAN SCARPS AREA.

  • Deposit

    DUTT, A.B. THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE SHAN SCARPS INCLUDED

  • Deposit

    IN THE KYAUKSE, MEIKTILA AND YEMETHIN DISTRICS AND THE

  • Deposit

    YE-NGAN STATE, RECORD GEOLOGY SURVEY, INDIA, PROFESSIONAL

  • Deposit

    PAPER 10, PP.77, 1942.

  • Deposit

    GARSON, M.S.; AMOS, B.J.; HUTCHISON, D; KYI SOE, PHONE MYINT

  • Deposit

    AND NGAW CIN PAU, 1972, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY

  • Deposit

    OF THE AREA AROUND NEYANGGA AND YE-NGAN SOUTHERN SHAN

  • Deposit

    STATES, BURMA, REPORT OVERSEAS DIVISION INSTITUTE

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, LONDON, NO. 22.

  • Deposit

    GOBBETT, D.J. AND HUTCHINSON, C.S. GEOLOGY OF THE MALAY

  • Deposit

    PENINSULA, WILEY-INTERSCIENCE, 1973, P.483.

  • Deposit

    WORLD MINING, 12/78

  • Deposit

    MINING MAGAZINE, 9/78

  • Deposit

    WORLD MINING, 12/76

  • Deposit

    JANKOVIC, S., THE COPPER DEPOSITS AND GEOTECTONIC SETTING OF

  • Deposit

    THE THETHYAN EURASIAN METALLOGENIC BELT, IN MINERALIUM

  • Deposit

    DEPOSITA BY SPRINGER-VERLAG 1977, VOL. 12, NO. 1, P.37-47.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 28-AUG-1996 Porter, Kenneth E. U.S. Bureau of Mines

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