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Molybdenite

Taguchi Mine

Yatsuhashi, Shitara city, Kita-Shitara county, Aichi pref., Japan

This locality is strictly closed to collecting.

Source for Molybdenum

Molybdenite

Field of view: 10 mm. Molybdenite assocaited with rhodonite. The tabular silver crystals are molybdenite. The surrounding pale pink host is aggregate of rhodonite and minor amount of quartz.

Recovered from a bedded manganese deposit in pelitic schist subjected to Amphibolite facies regional metamorphism and contact metamorphism by granodiorite.

Molybdenite from this location was described in 1960.

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