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Fengtien nephrite belt, Hualien Co., Taiwan Province, Taiwan

Diopside
Fengtien nephrite belt, Hualien Co., Taiwan Province, Taiwan
A belt of nephrite deposits, about 10 km long and 3 km wide, extending from Chiakangchi in the south to Paipoaochi in the north. Although nephrite occurrences are known over a north-south distance of 60 km, production has been mainly from the Fengtien area.

Nephrite occurs in the hanging walls and footwalls of serpentinite bodies from which it was formed by metasomatism. The serpentinite bodies are associated with diopside fels and are hosted in metasedimentary rocks.

Mineral List

Actinolite
Albite
Antigorite
Aragonite
Brucite
Calcite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Chromite
Chrysotile
 Clinochlore
var: Pyknochlorite
Clinozoisite
Diopside
var: Chromian Diopside
Dolomite
Epidote
'Ferro-Actinolite-Tremolite Series
var: Nephrite'
Graphite
Grossular
 'Grossular-Hibschite Series'
Hercynite
var: Picotite
Ilmenite
Lizardite
Magnesite
Magnetite
Muscovite
var: Sericite
'Olivine'
Pyrite
 Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Sanidine
'Serpentine Group'
Talc
Titanite
Tremolite
Uvarovite
Vesuvianite
Zoisite


40 entries listed. 31 valid minerals.

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References

Wan, H. M., & Yeh, C. L. (1984). Uvarovite and grossular from the Fengtien nephrite deposits, eastern Taiwan. Mineralogical Magazine, 48(346), 31-37.

Zhengzhang Tao (1992): The Nephrite of Taiwan. Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology 13(4), 21-27.

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