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

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.

Ref.:
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.
Rocks & Min.: 59:216.

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





Mineral List:
  		•  Actinolite
  		• Aegirine
    var: Urbanite
  		• Alabandite
  		• Albite
  		• 'Allanite'
  		• Alleghanyite
  		• Almandine
  		• Andalusite
  		• Andradite
  		• Apatite-(CaF)
  		• Arsenopyrite
  		• Baryte
  		• Bementite
  		• Biotite
       var: Manganophyllite
  		• Bornite
  		• Braunite
  		• Bustamite
  		• Calcite
       var: Manganoan Calcite
  		• Caryopilite
  		• Celsian
  		• Chalcocite
  		• Chalcopyrite
  		• 'Chlorite Group'
  		• Cobaltite
  		• Copper
  		• Cordierite
  		• Cubanite
  		• Cummingtonite
  		• Diopside
  		• Epidote
  		• Feitknechtite
  		• Galaxite
  		• Galena
  		• Gersdorffite
  		• Grossular
  		• Haradaite
  		• Hausmannite
  		• Hedenbergite
  		• Hematite
  		• Hyalophane
  		• 'Hydrohausmannite'
  		• Jacobsite
  		• Kinoshitalite (TL)
  		• Limonite
  		• Magnetite
  		• Malachite
  		• Manganogrunerite
  		• Manganosite
  		• Marcasite
  		• Molybdenite
  		• Muscovite
  		• Neotocite
  		• Nickeline
  		• Opal
  		• Orthoclase
       var: Barian Orthoclase
  		• Parsettensite
  		• Pentlandite
  		• Phlogopite
    var: Manganoan Phlogopite
  		• 'Picrotephroite'
  		• 'Psilomelane'
  		• Pyrite
       var: Nickelian Pyrite
  		• Pyrochroite
  		• Pyrolusite
  		• Pyrophanite
  		• Pyroxmangite
  		• Pyrrhotite
  		• Quartz
  		• Ramsdellite
  		• Rhodochrosite
  		• Rhodonite
  		• Richterite
  		• 'Sericite'
  		• Spessartine
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Tephroite
  		• Tetrahedrite
  		• Titanite
  		• 'Tourmaline Group'
  		• Tremolite
  		• Uraninite
  		• Vesuvianite
  		• Wollastonite
  		• Yoshimuraite (TL)
  		• Zircon


    88 entries listed. 72 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

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