Akaishi mine, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Japan

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Used to produce about 1,000 tons a month of dunite rock, mainly for production of refractories, with minor chromium production. Minor eclogite rock is also present.

(See also under "Higashi-Akaishi dunite".)

Mineral List:

Actinolite
Calcite
Chromite
Clinochlore
var: Chromian Clinochlore
Diopside
var: Chromian Diopside

Forsterite
Magnesiochromite
Magnesite
Magnetite
Pyrope

'Serpentine Group'
Talc
Uvarovite

13 entries listed. 10 valid minerals.

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