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Beaverite-(Cu)

Mikawa Mine

Araya, Aga city, Higashi-Kambara county, Niigata pref., Japan

Beaverite-(Cu)

Field of view: 5mm. Beaverite-(Cu) in an open space of a quartz vein. The earthy yellowish-brown parts are aggregate of fine beaverite-(Cu) crystals. The white host is gangue quartz.

Recovered from an open space of a quartz vein in a meteoric oxidation zone of a moderate-temperature hydrothermal deposit associated with rhyolite.

Beaverite-(Cu) from this location was described in 2003.

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