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Japanese orpiment localities

42 localities

A list of Japanese orpiment localities described in citable papers and books. The list is edited based on the editing policy of location lists.

Year of description

Location (Prefecture, Synonym, Comments)

Year 1876

Moji mine (Miyagi)

Year 1877

Jozan valley (Hokkaido, Shiromizu creek)

Year 1897

Name creek (Yamanashi, Mitomi), Mount Osorezan (Aomori, Lake Usori)

Year 1900

Toyohira river (Hokkaido, Ishikari), Furube mine (Hokkaido), Ashio mine (Tochigi), Sasagatani mine (Shimane), Masaki mine (Miyazaki), Shiromizu river (Hokkaido, As)

Year 1909

Yunosawa (Tochigi, Kuriyama, Kawamata hot spring)

Year 1911

Usujiri mine (Hokkaido), Kinaoshi mine (Hokkaido)

Year 1916

Esan mine (Hokkaido, S)

Year 1920

Tamagawa hot spring (Akita, Shikayu hot spring, Shibukuro hot spring)

Year 1926

Toya mine (Hokkaido, Toya-Takarada mine)

Year 1927

Nishinomaki mine (Gunma, Saimoku mine)

Year 1944

Teine mine (Hokkaido)

Year 1951

Okuchi mine (Kagoshima, Ushio mine)

Year 1952

Takinosawa mine (Hokkaido, S), Sankaidaki mine (Aomori), Shin-Bajo mine (Oita, Kunitoku mine, Fuso mine)

Year 1956

Ikuno mine (Hyogo)

Year 1957

Niu mine (Mie)

Year 1960

Uttsu mine (Hokkaido, Kitami mine), Horobetsu mine (Hokkaido, S), Matsuo mine (Iwate)

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Year 1963

Satsuma-Iojima island (Kagoshima, Iojima mine)

Year 1965

Yakumo mine (Hokkaido)

Year 1967

Tamagawa mine (Hokkaido), Usubetsu river (Hokkaido, As)

Year 1968

Tokushunbetsu mine (Hokkaido)

Year 1974

Mizutani mine (Mie)

Year 1977

Sumiyoshi coal mine (Fukuoka)

Year 1983

Ezuri mine (Akita)

Year 1989

Shuzu river (Aomori, Mount Osorezan)

Year 1999

Kiura mine (Oita)

Year 2001

Takizawa (Fukushima, Yanagitsu, Oku-Aizu)

Year 2007

Koaka river (Aomori, Mount Mutsu-Hiuchidake)

Year 2022

Tozawa mine (Gunma)