Gozaisho Mine
Odaira, Tono village, Iwaki city, Fukushima pref., Japan
Synonym
Gosaisho Mine
Occurrence
Epidote-Amphibolite facies bedded manganese deposit
Bedded manganese deposit in siliceous schist of Gozaisho Metamorphic Rocks.
Reported Minerals
- Copper
- Chalcopyrite
- Pyrite
- Molybdenite
- Brandtite
- Jacobsite
- Iwakiite
- Hausmannite
- Manganosite
- Hematite
- Magnetite
- Pyrophanite
- Sonolite
- Pyrolusite
- Cryptomelane
- Nsutite
- Goethite
- Rhodochrosite
- Calcite
- Malachite
- Manganberzeliite
- Braunite
- Tephroite
- Spessartine
- Epidote
- Aegirine
- Manganocummingtonite
- Rhodonite
- Nambulite
- Helvine
- Phlogopite
- Chrysocolla
- Neotocite
- Albite
- Langbanite
- Wallkilldellite-(Mn)
- Villyaellenite
- Miguelromeroite
Mineral Assemblages
- Braunite - Rhodonite - Nambulite
- Rhodonite - Manganberzelite
- Rhodonite - Aegirine
- Braunite - Quartz - Iwakiite
- Rhodonite - Pyrophanite - Rhodochrosite
- Rhodonite - Hematite - Pyrophanite
Localities
- Gozaisho Mine (Abukuma metamorphic rocks)
Related Occurrences
- Bedded Mn (Diagenesis)
- Bedded Mn (Low-T zeolite facies)
- Bedded Mn (High-T zeolite facies)
- Bedded Mn (Prehnite-Pumpellyite facies)
- Bedded Mn (Pumpellyite-Actinolite facies)
- Bedded Mn (Greenschist facies)
- Bedded Mn (Epidote-Amphibolite facies)
- Bedded Mn (Amphibolite facies)
- Bedded Mn (Albite-Epidote-hornfels facies)
- Bedded Mn (Hornblende-hornfels facies)
- Bedded Mn (Pyroxene-hornfels facies)