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Itoigawa City, 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

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Actinolite
Albite
Amesite
Anatase
Benitoite
Celsian
'Chlorite Group'
'Chrysoprase'
Cinnabar
Clinozoisite
Clinozoisite-(Sr) (TL)
Corundum
Diaspore
Diopside
Dumortierite
Eckermannite
Edenite
Fluorstrophite
Galena
Glaucophane
Graphite
Grossular
Heazlewoodite
Itoigawaite (TL)
Jadeite
var: Titanian Jadeite
Kosmochlor
Lamprophyllite
Leucosphenite
Magnesioriebeckite
Matsubaraite (TL)
Muscovite
Natrolite
Ohmilite (TL)
Omphacite
var: Titanian Omphacite
Paragonite
Pargasite
Pectolite
Phlogopite
Piemontite-(Sr)
Prehnite
Preiswerkite
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


80 entries listed. 57 valid minerals. 6 type localities (valid minerals).

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