Adamite
Mozumi deposit, Kamioka Mine
Mount Ikeno, Okunoyama, Toyama city, Toyama pref., Japan
This locality is closed to collecting.
Field of view: 5 mm. Adamite associated with limonite. The acicular colorless crystals are adamite. The short hexagonal green prisms are pyromorphite. The brown basement is a limonite crust.
Recovered from a meteoric oxidation zone of a pneumatolytic deposit combined with skarn formed by contact metamorphism of I-type (Magnetite-series) granite.
Adamite from this location was described in 1996.
Other localities
- Kinjo Mine (Hydrothermal Skarn, Radial)
- Kamioka Mine (Pneumatolytic Skarn, Acicular)