Renge Mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Aligned "potato-shaped" pods (up to 4 meters long) of metamorphosed sedimentary manganese ore hosted in Paleozoic chert. Cut by late-stage carbonate-bementite-neotocite veinlets.

Ref.:
Lee, D. E. (1955): Mineralogy of Some Japanese Manganese Ores. (Stanford University Press)

Mineral List:

	Actinolite

	'Apatite'

	Bementite

	Galaxite

	'Garnet Group'

	Hübnerite

	Neotocite

	Pyrite

	Pyrophanite

	Pyroxmangite

	Pyrrhotite

	Quartz

	Rhodonite

	Sphalerite

	Tephroite

	Tremolite

16 entries listed. 14 valid minerals.

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