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

田口鉱山, 愛知県 北設楽郡 設楽町

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
Biotite
Chalcopyrite
Feitknechtite
Galaxite
Hausmannite
Hejtmanite
Jacobsite
Katophorite
'K Feldspar'
Manganocummingtonite
Manganogrunerite
Manganosite
Neotocite
Niahite
Pyrochroite
Pyrophanite
Pyroxmangite
Quartz
Ranciéite
Rhodochrosite
Rhodonite
Richterite
Shirozulite (TL)
Sonolite
Spessartine
Tephroite
Yoshimuraite


31 entries listed. 28 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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