Tremolite
Horado-Komi, Seki city, Gifu pref., Japan
Field of view: 30 mm. A group of tremolite. The white fibers are tremolite. The yellowish-green grains at the center and at the lower left are grossular underlying tremolite.
Recovered from skarn formed by contact metamorphism of I-type (magnetite-series) granite associated with a caldera complex. Formed in the early Paleocene (65 Ma).
Tremolite from this location was described in 1996.
Other localities
- Waga-Sennin Mine (Metasomatic Skarn, Fibrous)
- Horado Mine (Skarn, Fibrous)
- Kasuga Mine (Skarn, Prismatic)
- Kuriyaze Bridge (Serpentinite, Fibrous)
- Kurotani (Serpentinite, Prismatic)