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Rutile

Otome Mine

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

This locality is closed to collecting.

Source for Titanium

Rutile

Field of view: 5 mm. Rutile associated with quartz. The translucent dark red prisms are rutile. The transparent basement with a vitreous luster is gangue quartz.

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

Rutile from this location was described in 1982.

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