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Ohya mine (Oya mine; Ohya quarry), Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Kanto Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Large underground quarries worked for lacustrine tuff as dimension stone, much used in central Japan for garden walls. One enormous quarried cavern was used during WW2 for underground fighter plane assembly, and this is now open for tourism. There have been some problems with roof collapse, and houses lost to subsidence.





Mineral List:
  • 'Chlorite Group'
    Reference: [Alfredo Petrov collection]
  • Nitratine
    NaNO
     
    3
    Reference: [Akira Kato (1973) Sakurai Koubutsu Hyohon, 35.]


    2 entries listed. 1 valid mineral.

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