Akagane mine, Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan

A small copper and iron ore deposit. (1958 production 19,000 t Fe; average Fe content of ore 39.5%. Carboniferous pyroclastic and sedimentary rocks (greenstone and limestone) are cut by igneous intrusions (quartz porphyry, porphyrite, gabbro, granite and granodiorite). The ore body and the skarn are developed along the contact zone of gabbro.

References:
-Matsubara, S., Miyawaki, R. (1999). Baghdadite from the Akagana Mine, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Bull. Nat. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. C., 25 (3-4): 65-72.

Mineral List:

	Akaganeite (TL)

	'Apatite'

	Axinite-(Fe)

	Baghdadite

	Bicchulite

	Böhmite

	Calcite

	Chalcopyrite

	Chamosite

	Clintonite

	Dellaite

	Ferro-Actinolite

	Foshagite

	Gahnite

	Goethite

	Grossular

	Mackinawite

	Marialite

	'Marialite-Meionite Series'

	Melanterite

	Perovskite

	Pyrrhotite

	Quartz

	Scheelite

	Sphalerite

	Tilleyite

	Troilite

	Vesuvianite

	Wollastonite

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

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