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Hemimorphite from
Obira Mine, Bungo-Ono City, Oita Prefecture, Japan


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Hemimorphite
Formula:Zn4Si2O7(OH)2 · H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hemimorphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Obira Mine, Bungo-Ono City, Oita Prefecture, Japan
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:364514
Long-form Identifier:1:3:364514:7
GUID (UUID V4):c399a373-6017-40d8-9c0c-dc4e6e34f6f7
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
mineral col lector, was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on August 30, 1874. Soon after his graduation...at the Arakawa Mine, Akita Prefecture. In 1909, he was promoted to Director of the Mine and held. the...then that of the Director of the Yoshioka Mine, Okayama Prefecture, for about seven years altogether. He...technology in the first half of this century in Japan. He retired from the Advisory Board of the Mitsu...such volumes as " Beiträge zur Mineralogie von. Japan ", Neue Folge I and II (T. Ito, 1937), " Japanese
Book (edition)
Krenner's, and new face. OF MINERALS OF JAPAN BY TSUNASHIRO WADA ...alogy, like most other sciences, has developed in Japan. Mineralogy was first taught here in 1873 by a German...crystallised and of high known minerals from Japan are stibnite, in crystals most gigantic and splendid...metallic found in abundance. sul- In fact Japan seems to be an instance of remarkable richness in...prepare a paper devoted to the miner- alogy of Japan. In the following pages, which have been written
Catalog/List
5. APATITE variety FRAN~OLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Choice, small, sharp transparent...4ix4". £12. AURIc~LCITE. AXINITE. Obira Mine, Oita Prefecture, Japan. Lustrous, sharp, clove bro~m crysta...BARYTOCALCITE. Admiralty Flats, Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nr. ,;lston Cumberland. Intergro~m group of large...crystaL Itxl". £2. 16. BREWSTERITE. Bellsgrove Mine, Strontian, Argyll, Scotland. Superb, transparent...£1. 19. CAL~ITE. 20. CALCITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tyv~rdreath, Cornwall. Thick, metallic lead grey
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characteristic such as the “Japan-Law” twinned rock crystals from Japan. Even though most of the classic...Localities of Asia Japan The Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Iyo Province, Ehime Prefecture, Island of Shikoku...Shikoku Ashio Mine, Shimotsuke Province, Tochigi Prefecture, Honshu The Ani and Arakawa Mines, Ugo Province...Akita Prefecture, Honshu The Obira Mine, Bungo Province, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu; The Toroku Mine, Hyuga...Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu Otome Mine, Suisho Pass, Kurobera, Kai Province, Yamanashi Prefecture, Honshu
Catalog/List
greenish Chlorite. lixlxl".£3.25. 2. ALASKAITE. Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, Silverton, San Juan Co., Colorado...£13. 5. APATITE variety FRM~~OLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, ~ornwall. Snall, translucent, aggregates... ARAGONITE variety TAhNOWITZITE. New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfries. Thick, creamy white, lustrous...rock. 3tx2". £4.50. 12. AXINITE. Obira Mine, Oita Prefecture, Japan. Choice, pure mass, of sharp, lustrous...Axinite. 3x2 2 x2t". £22. 13. AZUHITE. Ting-Tang Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Rich, bright blue, crystaline
Catalog/List
----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 £25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban...________ __ _!LU9! .~~~ -E N1 163 GALENA Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthcad. Cumbria Cube-octahedral grey crystals
Catalog/List
£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...£10 2x3 £15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix...5cm £4 no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine...£7.50 Ag Sb 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with...£8 2x3 £12 236 1129 • ALMAN DINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Rich fine grained solid grainlike
Catalog/List
___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety)...217 ANDORITE San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia 1129 ■ ALMANDINE Brnstad iron Mine near Arendnl ,Norway Pure...Bcnallt Minc,Llcyn. Wales 1036 ALSTONITE Fnllowlielcl Mine, Northumberland White masses in malrix wilh micro
Catalog/List
massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting...~-------·-·-- ·· -·· 1077 ■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black...Kola Russia 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with
Catalog/List
lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal..._lx2_ _80 _ _____ _,o 1129 ALMANDINE Braslad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Unknown location I 1 63 □a...lxl£2 2x3£6 3x4£8 feldspar ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland ANDRADITE Grua. Oppland Norway 5...2x3£15 Gamet ½" £3 ALTHAUSITE ANDRADITE Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales Modum, Buskerud,Norway 975 44 Brown-purple
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mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular These minerals...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5...divided by the weight of an Graphite, Black Donald Mine, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada * 14 x 11 x 10
Catalog/List
Nice. 75x50x31 010 ALUMINOCOPIAPITE - Champion Mine, California, USA. A pure yellow botryodal mass....matrix. 6lx47xl8 22,00 017 APACHEITE - Christmas Mine, Gila Co., USA. Pale blue patches in matrix. Moderately...xl 13xl0x8 8,00 )!. .. 022 AXINITE xx - Obira Mine, Japan. A large terminated xl, 47x27, forming the...BRUSHITE - CALCIOFERRITE - ARAGONITE - Rocabruna Mine, Brugues Gaba, Barcelona, Spain. Very rich whitish...----0000000 A GROUP OF CALCITE XX-GROUPS FROM THE STEFANIE MINE, BLEIBERG, CARINTHIA, AUSTRIA, COLLECTED IN 1980
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: the Taewha mine, K orea.................................................... 133 by P. Bancroft The occurrence of Japan-law twinning in quartz ... 137 by R. B. Cook Hureaulite...COVER: WULFENITE with mimetitefrom the San Francisco mine near Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico. The large crystal...Calif. Rock and Mineral (Temple City, CA) Joseph Kielbaso (Tipp City, OH) Stanley P. Korowski (Kitwe...Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, California Tourmaline Queen mine, Pala, California Pala Chief mine, Pala, California
Journal (issue)
granted to Will Larson displaying "Minerals of Japan" and Stuart Wilensky with "Mineral Masterpieces...Will Larson Will Larson Collection: Minerals of Japan .........................40 Boris Z. Kantor The...the trophy list after Spanish reconquista of the city of Cuzco IT] was a sheet of white gold, which...It should be mentioned that it was not worth to mine at a time, because it could not be sold. Scientific...river Bogota near the city of Santa Fe and into the river Kauka near the city of Popaiana. ... This
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G - EOLOGICAL OF THE MINERI IN JAPAN AND Hideki Imai t z0 ::a:: 0 0 � I ( CRYSTALS NOT PISTOLS...STUDIES OF THE MINERAL DEPOSITS'( GEOLOGICAL lN JAPAN AND EAST ASIA ,,.. I -I �1n .. o� ;.,. "W...GEOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE MINERAL DEP OSITS IN JAPAN AND EAST ASIA Hideki Imai UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO PRESS...TOKYO PRESS, 1978 UTP 3044-687 59-5 I 49 Printed in Japan All rights reserved. No part of this publication...During these 40 years, I studied the ore deposits in Japan and East Asia from the geological and mineralogical
Book (edition)
smashing of crystals in magnificient pockets by mine foremen; such vandalism is not only stupid,...vein, although it does give a company the right to mine, should not be taken as justification of thoughtless...through the press or as stockholders, to force the mine operators to arrange for specimen preservation in...another. It matters not how the mine companies arrange this. Ideally, the mine could collect and sell specimens...thereby make more profits for the stockholders. If the mine owners consider this too trivial, they can close
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5 Kuroko, Hokuroku basin, Northeastern Honshu, Japan ..................... 58 3.2.6 Laochang, Changning-Menglian...Hyogo Prefecture, Honshu, Southwest Japan .................... 79 3.4.3 Fukoku, Kyoto Prefecture, Honshu...Southwest Japan ....................... 82 3.4.4 lkuno, Hyogo Prefecture, Honshu, Southwest Japan .........District, Gifu Prefecture, Honshu, Southwest Japan ..... 83 3.4.6 Omodani, Fukui Prefecture, Honshu, Southwest...Southwest Japan ..................... 84 3.4.7 West Shropshire Orefield, England .....................
Journal (issue)
York circulation manager Articles The Boltsbum mine, Weardale, County Duiham, England ................ Bariand Arsenate minerals of the Sterling Hill mine: an overview .....................................The Mineralogical Record Jan uary-February, 1982 mine Weardale, CpuntyJ)urham, England t h e B o l...1800’s, fine specimens have issuedfrom the Boltsburn mine and are still occasionally available today. W ...flats* in this famous mine that so many of the fine specimens came. Although the mine has been abandoned
Book (edition)
a vein, although it gives a company the right to mine, should not be taken as justification for barbaric...conscience and good will, or as stockholders to encourage mine operators to arrange for specimen preservation in...mining company might arrange this. Ideally, the mine could collect and sell specimens and thereby make...make more profits for the stockholders. If the mine owners consider this too trivial, they can close their...supervision in a profit-sharing agreement when the mine is not working. Surely with goodwill and understanding
Journal (issue)
calcite; crystal aggregates 15 cm in size. Vеrklinii Mine, Dabugorsk, Pпmorskii Krai, Russia. Specimen: V...— Finbo near Falun; * fluocerile — Broddho. The mine was in operating since the middle of the 11th century...Shirley Fiske соllесtroп. i Вогпite & calcite. Mine # 57, Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, 3.3 cm high. Нeliodor...38"47' N, 450' W:! calomel; ! cinnabar; mercury; mine worked already in l-st century B.С. 77e British...Cumberland, England:! fluorite — Weardale, lead mine — outstanding specimens in museum around all world
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Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets...of crystallized gold occurred in the Jamestow n mine. California, USA, where a cavity, which yielded
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wolframite orthoclase olivine f struvite N hemimorphite | | System 29 9 & | Monoclinic The Orthorhombic]...interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...HYDROZINCITE Zn[(OH)3COs;]. (Zinc Bloom) San Giovanni Mine, Laorca, Sardinia eliminated from soda lakes, in...columnar crystals, in zinc ore deps. HOPEITE hemimorphite, vanadinite Zn;(PO4). . compact, botryoidal...chalcedony, (Zeolite) Benyevenagh, Ireland HEMIMORPHITE Zn4 ((OH)2Si,0,] . H,O (Silicate of Zinc,
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(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...is mined in Louisiana and Texas (USA), Sicily, Japan, Indonesia and the South American Andes. The best...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)...(Austria), Cobalt and Eldorado (Canada), Natsume (Japan), Bou Azzer (Morocco), Anarak (Iran) and La Rloja...bornite and pyrite. Covellite is found at the Calabona mine (Sardinia) and Vesuvius (Italy), Salzberg (Austria)
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(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...is mined in Louisiana and Texas (USA), Sicily, Japan, Indonesia and the South American Andes. The best...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)...(Austria), Cobalt and Eldorado (Canada), Natsume (Japan), Bou Azzer (Morocco), Anarak (Iran) and La Rloja...bornite and pyrite. Covellite is found at the Calabona mine (Sardinia) and Vesuvius (Italy), Salzberg (Austria)
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ntanite augne orthoclase barytes sulphur hemimorphite olivine g S. a 2 « « >• F— cz2 o scheelite...interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...HYDRO­ ZINCITE ZnKOHhCOj. (Zinc Bloom) San Giovanni Mine, Laorca, Sardinia colourless, white, yellowish...tryoidal masses orthorhombic in zinc orc deps. hemimorphite, vanadinite HOPEITE Zn,,(PO|).. 4H«O Altenberg...... tin orc Tonokamiyama, veins, in placers of Japan precious stones octahedral, cubic, dodecahedral
 
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