Mount Kinshozan
Kiroko, Ogawa city, Hiki county, Saitama pref., Japan
Occurrence
Titanium type rare-element pegmatite
Pegmatite in Kinshozan Quartz Diorite overlying Sambagawa Metamorphic Rocks through a low angle thrust fault.
Outcrop of a pegmatite vein in Kinshozan Quartz Diorite. The white vein from right to left is pegmatite. It is composed of quartz and feldspar with minor amount of muscovite. The surrounding host is granodiolite, and there is no specific structures at the boundary between granodiolite and pegmatite. A small fault cuts the pegmatite at the left end of the photograph.
Reported Minerals
- Muscovite
- Almandine
Mineral Assemblages
- Quartz - Feldspar - Muscovite - Almandine
Localities
- Otome Mine (W deposit)
- Hirasawa Mine (Adularia)
- Mount Kinsho (Granodiolite)
- Senno creek (Granodiolite)
- Sakeishi (Granodiolite)
Related Occurrences
- Pegmatite (Abyssal)
- Pegmatite (Muscovite)
- Pegmatite (Muscovite-Rare element)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Allanite)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Euxenite)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Gadolinite)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Titanium)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Beryl)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Phosphate)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Spodumene)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Petalite)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Lepidolite)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Elbaite)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Amblygonite)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Albite-Spodumene)
- Pegmatite (Rare element, Albite)
- Pegmatite (Miarolitic, REE)
- Pegmatite (Miarolitic, Li)
- Pegmatite (Gabbro)