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Yamato mine, Yamato-son, Amami-Oshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Nansei Archipelago, Kyushu Region, Japan

大和鉱山, 鹿児島県 大島郡 大和村 名音(なおん) 字深山塔(あざ みやまんとう)

Metamorphosed, low-grade manganese ore. Abandoned around 1960.
All lower elevation adits disappeared by renewal construction of prefectural road.
Traces of dumps remain.
WARNING: Dumps are infested with the very poisonous "Habu" snake!
(Habu or Hon-habu; Protobothrops flavoviridis, most poisonous snake in Japan)

Mineral List

Alabandite ?
Albite
Antigorite
Axinite-(Mn)
Baryte
Bementite
Braunite
Calcite
var: Manganoan Calcite

Chalcopyrite
'Chert'
Copper
Goldmanite
Haradaite (TL)
Hematite
Malachite
Molybdenite
Nabiasite
Palenzonaite
Pyrite
Pyrophanite
Pyroxmangite
Pyrrhotite ?
Quartz
Rhodochrosite
Rhodonite
Roscoelite
'Serpentine Group'
Spessartine
Tiragalloite
Tokyoite
'Yamatoite'


31 entries listed. 27 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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