Hemimorphite

Kami-Ono, Ono city, Fukui pref., Japan

This locality is closed to collectors.

Field of view: 15 mm. A reniform blue group of hemimorphite. The brown host at the bottom is limonite.

Recovered from a meteoric oxidation zone of a moderate-temperature hydrothermal deposit combined with skarn formed by contact metamorphism of I-type (magnetite-series) quartz porphyry.

Hemimorphite from this location was described in 1895.

Field of view: 20 mm. The reniform white group of hemimorphite. The brown parts are the host garnet skarn.

Other localities

List of Japanese hemimorphite localities

Kamioka Mine (Pneumatolytic Skarn, Tabular)
Horado Mine (Hydrothermal Skarn, Tabular)
Nakatatsu Mine (Hydrothermal Skarn, Reniform)
Kawazu Mine (Hydrothermal, Tabular)
Takaneyama Mine (Hydrothermal, Prismatic)