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Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture, Chubu Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Minerals from the green/blue/lavender jade (jadeitite) boulders & pebbles from the region, in particular from:
- Oyashirazu sea shore
- Kotaki-gawa river bed
- Hime-kawa river

(Note to contributors: Please do NOT add the species brewsterite, chabazite-Sr, haradaite or hennomartinite to this locality. Although these species are mentioned in some japanese articles about Itoigawa, they are from elsewhere, not Itoigawa.)




Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities


Mineral List:
Actinolite
Albite
Amesite
Anatase
Apatite-(SrOH)
Benitoite
Celsian
'Chlorite Group'
'Chrysoprase'
Cinnabar
Clinozoisite
Clinozoisite-(Sr) (TL)
Corundum
Diaspore
Diopside
Dumortierite
Eckermannite
Galena
Grossular
Heazlewoodite
Itoigawaite (TL)
Jadeite
var: Titanian Jadeite
Kosmochlor
Lamprophyllite
Magnesioriebeckite
Matsubaraite (TL)
Muscovite
Natrolite
Ohmilite (TL)
Omphacite
var: Titanian Omphacite
Paragonite
Pargasite
Pectolite
Phlogopite
Piemontite-(Sr)
Prehnite
Pyrite
Quartz
Rengeite (TL)
Rutile
'Serpentine Group'
Shandite
Slawsonite
Spinel
Stronalsite
Strontiochevkinite
Strontiojoaquinite
Strontio-orthojoaquinite (TL)
Tausonite
Thomsonite-Sr
Titanite
Tremolite
UKI-2008-(SiO:SrTiZr)
Willemite
var: Radial Willemite ?

Xonotlite
Zircon
Zoisite


81 entries listed. 52 valid minerals. 6 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region:
Japan
 
  • Honshu Island
    • Chubu Region
      • Niigata Prefecture
        • Itoigawa

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