Aragonite
Sanbagawa, Fujioka city, Gunma pref., Japan
This locality is closed to collecting.
Field of view: 3 mm. Aragonite perched on an open space of serpentinite. Clear needles are aragonite. The yellowish-green basement is serpentinite.
Recovered from an open space in a meteoric oxidation zone of serpentinite in an accretionary complex subjected to Greenschist facies high-pressure metamorphism.
Field of view: 100 mm. Aragonite on the surface of serpentinite. The opaque white parts are groups of dull prisms of aragonite. The dark green host is serpentinite.
Other localities
- Choshi (Andesite, Pink)
- Onara (Serpentinite, Tabular)
- Kanayamadani valley (Serpentinite, Tabular)
- Shiraki (Serpentinite, Prismatic)
- Yoshikawa Mine (Serpentinite, Fibrous)
- Akatani Mine (Metasomatic Skarn, Prismatic)
- Taguchi Mine (Bedded Mn, Acicular)