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Calcite from
Fuka mine, Fuka, Bitchū, Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Henmilite13 photos of Calcite associated with Henmilite at this locality.
Olshanskyite8 photos of Calcite associated with Olshanskyite at this locality.
Pentahydroborite2 photos of Calcite associated with Pentahydroborite at this locality.
Charlesite1 photo of Calcite associated with Charlesite at this locality.
Chiyokoite1 photo of Calcite associated with Chiyokoite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fuka mine, Fuka, Bitchū, Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:2568
Long-form Identifier:1:3:2568:3
GUID (UUID V4):77452d3e-ed2e-4cb7-9114-42c3e0d5bd54
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
8.6km (5.4 miles) Yoshioka mine, Nariwa-cho, Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
37.9km (23.6 miles) Obie mine, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
60.2km (37.4 miles) Yanahara mine (Yanahara mining district), Misaki-cho, Kume District, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
63.9km (39.7 miles) Mount Kuresaka, Iwagi Island, Ochi District, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
69.0km (42.9 miles) Abandoned unnamed mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
72.5km (45.0 miles) Ningyo-toge mine, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Powder Pattern: Fuka mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho, Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. 9.53 (100), 5...7.30 100.2 (1) Fuka mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho, Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan; average electron...Association: Calcite, henmilite, tacharanite. Distribution: From the Fuka mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho, Takahashi City...City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Name: Honors Professor Chiyoko Henmi (1949-2018), Department of Earth...Earth Science, Okayama University, Japan, for his contributions to the mineralogy of skarn minerals from the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphism: A case study from Fuka contact aureole, Okayama, Japan Madhusoodhan SATISH − KUMAR*, Yasuhito...8529, Japan ** Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Education, Okayama University, Okayama 700 −...− 8530, Japan The contact aureole at Fuka, Okayama, Japan is peculiar for the occurrence of extensive...scores of other rare minerals. Skarn formation at Fuka can be classified into three major types 1. Grossular...diagrams suggests that the exoskarn formation at Fuka contact aureole was robustly controlled by the activity
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Lincoln] at 01:47 12 December 2015 Figure 1. The Fuka mine in winter. Hiroaki Tano photo. 13480 Tram View...The Dark Blue Borate from the Fuka Mine, Japan T he Fuka mine in Japan (no mispronun- ciations, please;...increasingly hostile to Japan, and in 1938 the United States began to embargo the sale to Japan of several strategic...borates over which California had a near monopoly. Japan lacks evaporite rocks, the world’s main source of...species such as ludwigite in China and danburite in Japan. Increasing desperation as World War II ground on
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Fuka101, mine 285 A crystalline form of borcarite from the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan Masayuki...Kyoto 610 − 1132, Japan Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Education, Okayama University, Tsushima...− 1, Okayama 700 − 8530, Japan *** 534 Kagamino − cho, Tomata − gun, Okayama 708 − 0345, Japan **** 2058...Niimi, Okayama 718 − 0011, Japan ***** 1471 Nishigata − cho, Ibara, Okayama 715 − 0015, Japan ** Euhedral...gehlenite − spurrite skarns at the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Interfacial angles of the reference
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Cu ANALOGUE OF BORCARITE FROM THE FUKA MINE, OKAYAMA PREFECTURE, JAPAN Masayuki OHNISHI§ and Isao KUSACHI§...Faculty of Education, Okayama University, 3–1–1 Tsushima-naka, Okayama 700–8530, Japan Shoichi KOBAYASHI...Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, 1–1 Ridai-cho, Okayama 700–0005, Japan Junji YAMAKAWA...Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3–1–1 Tsushima-naka, Okayama 700–8530, Japan Mitsuo TANABE 2058–3...Niimi, Okayama 718–0011, Japan Shigetomo KISHI 534 Takayama, Kagamino-cho, Tomata-gun, Okayama 700–0345
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and REE-free zálesíite from the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan Takahiro Tanaka*, Tetsuo Minakawa*...790 8577, Japan ** 509 6 Shiraishi, Okayama 701 0143, Japan *** 2058 3 Niimi, Niimi, Okayama 718 0011...0011, Japan - - - - - Zálesíite is found to exist as hexagonal prismatic crystals (length: up to 1 mm;...gehlenite spurrite skarns at the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The mineral is pale green to emerald...(OH) + 3 (H2O). Zálesíite collected from the Fuka mine contains Bi and is free of REE. The unit cell
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the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, 3−rich charlesite 47 CO3-rich charlesite from the Fuka mine, Okayama...Okayama Prefecture, Japan Isao KUSACHI*, Naoko SHIRAISHI**, Kazumasa SHIMADA***, Masayuki OHNISHI**** and...Education, Okayama University, Okayama 700 −8530, Japan ** 1053 Natsukawa, Okayama 701− 0164, Japan *** 260...260 Izumida, Okayama 700 − 0944, Japan **** Masutomi Geology Museum, Kyoto 602−8012, Japan ***** Department...Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700 − 0005, Japan Charlesite was found in a calcite vein
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Calciborite from Fuka, Okayama, Japan109, page 13 ─ 17, 2014 13 Calciborite from the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture...Prefecture, Japan Shoichi Kobayashi*, Tamami Ando*, Akiko Kanayama*, Mitsuo Tanabe**, Shigetomo Kishi*** and...Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-0005, Japan ** 2058-3 Niimi, Niimi...Niimi 718-0011, Japan *** 534 Takayama, Kagamino-cho, Tomata-gun 708-0345, Japan † 509-6 Shiraishi, Kita-ku...Kita-ku, Okayama 701-0143, Japan Calciborite was found as a veinlet or a mass in crystalline limestone
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219–223, 2019 Vimsite from the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan Shoichi KOBAYASHI*, Manami YUASA*...of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700–0005, Japan ** 2058–3 Niimi, Okayama 718–0011, Japan...Japan *** 534 Takayama, Kagamino–cho, Tomada–gun, Okayama 708–0345, Japan **** 509–6 Shiraishi, Kita–ku...Kita–ku, Okayama 701–0143, Japan Vimsite was found as a mass or a veinlet in crystalline limestone associated...gehlenite–spurrite skarns at the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Vimsite occurs as colorless to
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159–165, 2017 Kurchatovite from the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan Ayaka HAYASHI*, Koichi MOMMA**,...Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Kita–ku, Okayama 700–0005, Japan ** Department of Geology...Science, Tsukuba 305–0005, Japan *** 2058–3 Niimi, Okayama 718–0011, Japan † 534 Takayama, Kagamino–cho...Tomada–gun, Okayama 708–0345, Japan ‡ 509–6 Shiraishi, Kita–ku, Okayama 701–0143, Japan Kurchatovite...at the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The mineral is associated with shimazakiite, calcite and johnbaumite
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page 29–34, 2015 Roweite from the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan Tamami ANDO*, Akiko KANAYAMA*, Shoichi...of Science, Okayama University of Science, 1–1 Ridai–cho, Kita–ku, Okayama 700–0005, Japan ** Department...Ibaraki 305–0005, Japan *** 534 Takayama, Kagamino–cho, Tomada–gun, Okayama 708–0345, Japan † 2058–3 Niimi...Niimi, Okayama 718–0011, Japan †† 509–6 Shiraishi, Kita–ku, Okayama 701–0143, Japan Roweite occurs as reddish...gehlenite–spurrite skarns at the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. It is closely associated with uralborite
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page 20–24, 2017 Priceite from the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan Shoichi KOBAYASHI*, Tamami ANDO*...Science, Okayama University of Science, Kita–ku, Okayama 700–0005, Japan ** 2058–3 Niimi, Okayama 718–0011...718–0011, Japan *** 534 Takayama, Kagamino–cho, Tomada–gun, Okayama 708–0345, Japan † 509–6 Shiraishi, Kita–ku...Kita–ku, Okayama 701–0143, Japan Priceite was found as a mass or a veinlet in crystalline limestone associated...gehlenite–spurrite skarns at the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Priceite occurs as grayish white
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Nifontovite and olshanskyite from Fuka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan ISAO KUSACHI Department of Earth Sciences...Sciences, Faculty of Education, Okayama University, Okayama 700, Japan AND CHIYOKO HENMI Department of...Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700, Japan Abstract Nifontovite and olshanskyite...limestone near gehlenite-spurrite skarns at Fuka, Okayama Prefecture. Nifontovite occurs as aggregates of tabular...olshanskyite, borate, skarn, crystalline-limestone, Fuka, Japan Introduction NtFONTOVlTE, Ca3BtO6(OH)12.2H20
Report (issue)
of several geological origins. At Crestmore and Fuka in classic calcic skarns, at Suisho-dani in rodingite...Association: Tatarinovite, pectolite, xonotlite, calcite, grossular, diopside (Bazhenovskoe); charlesite...hausmannite (N’Chwaning II mine); bultfonteinite, scawtite, xonotlite, calcite (Fuka). Distribution: Exceptional...Exceptional specimens from the N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa. At Crestmore quarries...Russia. In Japan at the Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bitchucho, Okayama Prefecture and at Suisho-dani, Ise City, Mie Prefecture
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
169, Japan AND AKIYOSHIOKAMOTO 3-11-50oeda Minami Fukunishi-cho, Nishigyo, Kyoto 610-11, Japan Okayamalite...vesuvianite, calcite and johnbaumite from Fuka mine, Bicchu-cho, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The patches...metasomatism of a wollastonite-calcite aggregate. The name is for the prefecture. KEYWORDS" okayamalite, new...data, electron microprobe data, optical data, Fuka, Japan. Introduction THE incorporation of boron in...many publications on boron-bem'ing minerals from Fuka, such as the description of the new mineral takedaite
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1984 An oyelite-bearing vein at Fuka , the Town Okayama Prefecture Bitchu, of ISAO KUSACHI*,CHIYOKOHENMI**and...Okayama700,Japan ** Departmentof Earth Sciences,Facultyof Science, OkayamaUniversity,Okayama700, Japan An oyelite-bearing...in the gehlenite-spurrite skarn at Fuka, Okayama Prefec ture, Japan. Oyelite, previously called 10A tobermorite...contains bultfonteinite, scawtite, xonotlite and calcite. Among them, oyelite and scawtite are primarily...Oyelite occurs as a major component Introduction Fuka is known as a typical locality of of a vein
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Inyoite from Fuka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan 67 Inyoite from Fuka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan Isao KUSACHI*...Sciences, Faculty of Education, Okayama University, Okayama 700 − 8530, Japan Department of Earth Sciences...Sciences, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700 − 0005, Japan *** 2058 − 3 Niimi, Niimi...Niimi 718 − 0011, Japan **** 534 Kagamino − cho Tomata − gun 708 − 0345, Japan ***** Department of Earth...Sciences, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700 − 8530, Japan Inyoite was found as fissure
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Takedaite, a new mineral from Fuka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan I. KUSACHI Department of Earth Sciences...Sciences, Faculty of Education, Okayama University, Okayama 700, Japan C. HENMI Department of Earth Sciences...Sciences, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700, Japan AND S. KOBAYASHI Department of Earth Sciences...Sciences, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700, Japan Abstract Takedaite, Ca3B206...limestone near gehlenite-spurrite skams at Fuka, Okayama Prefecture. It occurs as aggregates of granular crystals
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Dolomitic, Rhodochrosite, and Calcareous Marbles of Japan S. M. Aleksandrov† and M. A. Troneva Vernadsky Institute...endogenous borates from hypabyssal skarn deposits of Japan (Honshu Island) that were formed after dolomitic...and are developed in calcitic marbles at the Fuka mine. Depending on initial composition of carbonate...takedaite, sibirskite, Mg, Mn, and Caskarns, Japan DOI: 10.1134/S001670291211002X INTRODUCTION The...endogenous borate mineral ization of Honshu Island, Japan are localized in the outer contact aureoles of the
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pentahydroborite and nifontovite from Fuka Mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan V. BERMANEC1,*, N. TOMAŠIĆ1, Ž...and nifontovite, Ca3B6O6(OH)12·2H2O from the Fuka mine, Japan are presented. Critical temperatures of the...nifontovite, were found in marble at Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan (Kusachi and Henmi, 1994; Kusachi...Samples for the present study were collected at Fuka mine during a field trip associated with the 19 th General...Igneous rocks forming high-temperature skarns at Fuka mine were identified as belonging to a monzodiorite
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Volume 112, Number 1-6 February-December, 2017 Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences c/o Graduate...Science, Tohoku University, Aoba, Sendai 980-8578, Japan CONTENTS OF VOLUME 112 No. 1, February 2017 ORIGINAL...TSUBOI ・・・・・・ 1 Priceite from the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan・・・・・・・・・・・Shoichi KOBAYASHI, Tamami...iridescent garnet from Tenkawa village, Nara prefecture, Japan ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・Yurie NAKAMURA, Takahiro KURIBAYASHI...new mineral from the Hinomaru–Nago mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・
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Parasibirskite, a new mineral from Fuka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan I. KUSACHI,Y. TAKECU~ Department of...Sciences, Faculty of Education, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan C. H E ~ I Department of Earth...Sciences, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan AND S. KOBAYASHI Division of...University of Science and the Arts, Kurashiki, 712-8505, Japan Parasibirskite, with the ideal formula Ca2B2Os...is a new mineral species found at Fuka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. It is a polymorph of sibirskite, CaHBO3
Report (issue)
polytype] X-ray Powder Pattern: Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. 2.92 (100), 3.02 (84), 2.81 (56)...(2) 61.30 36.51 [1.20] 99.01 (1) Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan; average of 28 electron microprobe...corresponding to Ca2B1.92O4.76(OH)0.24. (2) Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan; average of 25 electron microprobe...nifontovite, calcite, an uncharacterized hydrous calcium borate. Distribution: At the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture...Prefecture, Japan. Name: Honors Emeritus Professor Hidehiko Shimazaki (b. 1939), University of Tokyo, Japan
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formation of W-bearing rutile in the Kori Kollo mine, 421 Bond length, dependence of structure of olivines...in the gehlenite-spurrite skarns of Fuka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, 521 Boron analogue of gehlenite, 703...Aomori Prefecture, Japan, 793 CHILE, Atacama, crystal structure of szenicsite from Jardinera mine, 461;...conichalcite, 121; feldspar, 639; szenicsite from Janiera mine, Atacama, Chile, 461; wairakite, leucite and pollucite...the gehlenite-spurrite skams from Fuka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, 521; chrisstanleyite, 257; fahlores
Report (issue)
8177(2) Z = 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Fuka Mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. 2.654 (100), 2.862 (55), 3.479...46.28 28.50 24.24 0.36 99.38 (1) Fuka Mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan; average electron microprobe analysis;...by boron metasomatism of a wollastonite-calcite aggregate (Japan); probably by desilication-dehydroxylation...Wollastonite, vesuvianite, calcite, johnbaumite (Japan); datolite, calcite, apophyllite, chlorite, amorphous...(Norway). Distribution: From the Fuka Mine, Bicchu-cho, Okayama Prefecture, Japan [TL]. In the Arendal district
 
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