Hosokura Mine, Miyagi Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Ore extraction has now stopped at this lead-zinc-silver-cadmium mine, but it has become a mining-related amusement park. Epithermal veins; largest was 7 m wide, worked over a strike of 2 km, to a depth of 250 m. Mitsubishi still operates a smelter here. (1958 production: 11 tons Ag) Ref.: Mining Annual Review(1985):407.

Mineral List:

	Aramayoite

	Calcite

	Cerussite

	Chalcopyrite

	Fluorite

	Galena

	Marcasite

	Pyrargyrite

	Pyrite

	Quartz

	Smithsonite

	Sphalerite

	Stibnite

	Tetrahedrite

	Wurtzite

15 entries listed. 15 valid minerals.

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