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Detailed explanation-1: -The landslide occurred in the Hpakant area of northern Kachin state at 04:00 on Wednesday (21:30 GMT Tuesday). Myanmar, also known as Burma, is the world’s biggest source of jade, but its mines have seen numerous accidents.

Detailed explanation-2: -The world’s biggest jade mines are in Myanmar in Southeast Asia. The country is also known as Burma. It is the source of the world’s most precious jade.

Detailed explanation-3: -The tailings form large slopes, described by BBC News as “an area denuded of trees and resembling a moonscape", which is susceptible to collapse. An estimate 400,000 people work as freelance miners in northern Myanmar, and as of 2018 Myanmar was ranked first among all countries in landslide fatalities.

Detailed explanation-4: -Native sources in Henan and along the Yangtze were exploited since prehistoric times and have largely been exhausted; most Chinese jade today is extracted from the northwestern province of Xinjiang.

Detailed explanation-5: -Most known deposits of jadeite occur along, or near faults in serpentinites. Examples of this type of deposit are found in Myanmar, New Zealand, Canada, Taiwan, Guyana, Surinam, southern Europe, Russia and China.