Noda-Tamagawa mine, Noda, Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan

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Sedimentary manganese ore, now metamorphosed and repeatedly folded (overturned synclines), hosted in Paleozoic chert. Spectroscopic study shows traces of V, Cr, Ni in many minerals here.

Note: Some of the minerals listed here are from the country rock, not the orebody.

References

- Rocks & Min.: 59:216.
- Watanabe, T. (1959) The minerals of the Noda-Tamagawa mine, Iwate prefecture, Japan; I. Notes on geology and paragenesis of minerals. Mineralogical Journal, 2, 6, 408-421.
- Watanabe, T., et al. (1960) The minerals of the Noda-Tamagawa mine, Iwate Prefecture, Japan; II. Pyrochroite ore (Kimiman-koo) and its origin. Mineralogical Journal, 3, 1, 30-41.
- Kamitani, M., Okumura, K., Teraoka, Y., Miyano, S., and Watanabe, Y. (2007): Mineral Resources Map of East Asia. Geological Survey of Japan.

Mineral List

Actinolite Aegirine var: Urbanite Aegirine-augite Alabandite Albite 'Allanite' Alleghanyite Almandine 'Amphibole Group' Andalusite Andradite Arsenopyrite Baryte Bementite Biotite var: Manganophyllite Birnessite Bornite Braunite Bustamite Calcite var: Manganoan Calcite Caryopilite Celsian Chalcocite

Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Cobaltite Copper Cordierite Cryptomelane Cubanite Cummingtonite Diopside Epidote Feitknechtite 'Feldspar Group' Fluorapatite Galaxite Galena Gersdorffite Grossular Haradaite Hausmannite Hedenbergite Hematite Hyalophane 'Hydrohausmannite' Ilmenite Inesite Jacobsite

Kinoshitalite (TL) Limonite Magnesio-arfvedsonite Magnetite Malachite Manganocummingtonite Manganogrunerite Manganosite Marcasite Microcline Molybdenite Montmorillonite Muscovite var: Sericite Neotocite Nickeline Nsutite Opal Orthoclase var: Barian Orthoclase Parsettensite Pentlandite Phlogopite var: Manganoan Phlogopite 'Picrotephroite' 'Psilomelane' Pyrite

Pyrite var: Nickelian Pyrite Pyrochroite Pyrolusite Pyrophanite Pyrosmalite-(Mn) Pyroxmangite Pyrrhotite Quartz Ramsdellite Rhodochrosite Rhodonite Richterite Spessartine Sphalerite Sussexite Tephroite Tetrahedrite Titanite 'Tourmaline' Tremolite Uraninite Vesuvianite 'Wad' Wollastonite Yoshimuraite (TL) Zircon

104 entries listed. 85 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).