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Taguchi mine, Shidara, Kita-Shidara-gun, Aichi Prefecture, Chubu Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Long-abandoned manganese mine, now overgrown with forest. Metamorphosed sedimentary Mn ore hosted in quartz schist of the Ryoke metamorphic belt. Was once famous for the world's best pyroxmangite crystals, some even facettable as gems.





Mineral List:
Alabandite
Alleghanyite ?
'Apatite'
Baryte
Feitknechtite
Galaxite
Hausmannite
Hejtmanite
Jacobsite
'K Feldspar'
Manganocummingtonite
Manganogrunerite
Manganosite
Neotocite
Niahite
Pyrochroite
Pyrophanite
Pyroxmangite
Quartz
RanciƩite
Rhodochrosite
Rhodonite
Richterite
Shirozulite (TL)
Sonolite
Tephroite
Yoshimuraite


27 entries listed. 25 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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