Takatama mine (Takadama), Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Lithium Tosudite
Takatama mine, Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Photo: 2008, JGW

Latitude: 37°30'25"N
Longitude: 140°17'50"E

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Miocene epithermal gold-silver veins. Kaolin is also exploited (from the hydrothermally altered wall rock).
1958 production: 376 Kg Au (average 6.1g per ton of ore); 3,728 Kg Ag (average 61g/t) (Geology and Mineral Resources of Japan, Geological Survey of Japan, 1960).

Mineral List

Acanthite
Aguilarite
Chlorargyrite
Gold
var: Electrum

Hessite
Kaolinite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'
Naumannite

Pyrargyrite
Pyrite
Quartz
Silver

Sphalerite
Tosudite
var: Lithium Tosudite
Wavellite

15 entries listed. 12 valid minerals.

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