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Moegoke and other villages nearby have been famous since ancient times for its gemstones, especially ruby and sapphire, but semi-precious stones such as lapis lazuli, garnet, moonstone, peridot and chrysoberyl are also found. The gems are found in alluvial marble gravels by means of panning, tunneling and digging pits by hand. There is little mechanization of the mining. The gravels derive from the metamorphosed limestones (marbles) of the Moegoke metamorphic belt. 90% of the world's rubies come from Myanmar. The red stones from there are prized for their purity and hue. Thailand buys the majority of Myanmar's gems. The "Valley of Rubies", the mountainous Moegoke area, 200 km (125 miles) north of Mandalay, is noted for its rare pigeon's blood rubies and blue sapphires. Working conditions in the mines, however, are said to be horrendous. Debbie Stothard of the Alternative ASEAN Network on Myanmar stated that mining operators used drugs on employees to improve productivity, with needles shared, raising the risk of HIV infection: "These rubies are red with the blood of young people." Brian Leber (jeweler who founded The Jewellers' Myanmar Relief Project) stated that "for the time being," Myanmar gems should not be something to be proud of.

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Moegoke ruby are found in marble with cleavage as primary origin.Moegoke ruby mines of primary origin,these marble with rhomberg form cleavage ,clevage is a geology terms.Others ruby are also found in plain marble as primary .For example,:Ruby from the Sagin ridge where is saturated between Moegoke and Mandalay city highway and the Mattaya township.

The Moegoke blue sapphire are not found from the primary origin,the Moegoke blue sapphire are explored from secondary deposit mines,one of the best quality blue sapphires mines was loadket mine at kyukpyatthart village ,western part of Moegoke.Nowadays ,one of the most famous sapphires mine,it is saturated in the Bawmar village ,western Moegoke.The other colurs of corundum are call colour sapphire,it may confused to the pale red or pink ruby are widely called as pink sapphire in the international market. The Moegoke ruby production are going dawn in this decade ,some major mines are 300meters depth and over and below 100meter of ground water table@level so water must pump out to get the marbles with ruby.All of the mines must be pump out at the same time for at least 30days.