WurtziteHosokura Mine, Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan
Photo: 2008, JGW Latitude: 38°48'30"N
Longitude: 140°54'0"E
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.
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