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Molybdenite-2H

Otome Mine

Yanagidaira, Makioka village, Yamanashi city, Yamanashi pref., Japan

This locality is closed to collecting.

Source for Molybdenum

Molybdenite-2H

Field of view: 30 mm. Molybdenite-2H associated with quartz. The hexagonal platy silver crystals are molybdenite. The brown host is gangue quartz encrusted with limonite.

Recovered from a titanium type rare-element pegmatite associated with S-type (Ilmenite-series) granite. Formed in the late Miocene (9 Ma).

Molybdenite from this location was described in 1894.

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