Hanawa mine, Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Metamorphosed bedded (sedimentary) manganese ore hosted in Paleozoic chert, about 1 km from a granodiorite intrusion. Mine closed.
(NB: Not to be confused with the Hanawa manganese mine near Kiryu city, Gunma prefecture, nor with the Hanawa Zn-Pb-Cu mine in Tayama, Iwate prefecture.)

Mineral List:

	Alleghanyite

	Bementite

	Pyrochroite

	Quartz var: Chert

	Rhodochrosite

	Rhodonite

	Sonolite

	Tephroite

8 entries listed. 7 valid minerals.

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