Nakauri mine, Shinshiro city, Aichi prefecture, Chubu Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Sometimes appears on labels as "Shinshiro mine" or "Yoshikawa mine". The true Yoshikawa mine is another locality in the same city. Copper and nickel minerals in a serpentinized gabbro that was worked for copper for only 3 months in 1953. Very dangerous, long-abandoned quarry with overhanging ledges of unstable fractured rock.

Ref:
Am.Min. 62:594 (1977)

Mineral List:

	Artinite

	Brochantite

	Brucite

	Chrysotile

	Cobaltpentlandite

	Copper

	Djurleite

	Dypingite

	Gaspéite

	Glaukosphaerite

	Heazlewoodite

	Hydromagnesite

	Jamborite

	Magnetite

	Malachite

	Mcguinnessite

	Nakauriite (TL)

	Pyroaurite

	Sjögrenite

19 entries listed. 19 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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