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

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Metamorphosed sedimentary manganese ore in Paleozoic chert bed 1.2 meters thick, between graphitic slate beds above and below; anticlinal, with limbs dipping 40 degrees. Ref: Donald E. Lee (1955): Mineralogy of Some Japanese Manganese Ores, (Stanford University Press)

Mineral List:

Actinolite
Alabandite
'Allanite'
Alleghanyite
Graphite
Hausmannite

Neotocite
Pyrophanite
Pyroxmangite
Quartz
Rhodonite
'Sericite'

Spessartine
Tephroite
Tremolite
Vermiculite ?

16 entries listed. 14 valid minerals.

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