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Sugashima, Toba City, Mie Prefecture, Kinki region, Honshu Island, Japan

The largest quarry in Japan, on an island located about 3 km from the harbor of Toba city. The rodingite veins are found in gabbroic rocks. A very small-scale nickel-copper ore deposit was discovered in the mid-1980s.

Mineral List

Analcime
Andradite
'Apatite'
Aragonite
Arupite
Calcite
'Chabazite'
Clinochlore
Clinozoisite
Copper
Cuprite
Diopside
Djurleite
Gypsum
Heazlewoodite
Hydrohonessite
Julgoldite-(Mg) (TL)
Millerite
Morenosite
Natrolite
Népouite
Nickelhexahydrite
Pectolite
Pentlandite
Polydymite
Posnjakite
'Pumpellyite'
Reevesite
Retgersite
Tenorite
Thomsonite-Ca
Tobermorite
Troilite
Vesuvianite
Violarite


35 entries listed. 32 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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