Baryte
Katsuyama Mine
Kaminokuni city, hiyama county, Hiyama branch, Hokkaido, Japan
Field of view: 50 mm. A group of baryte. The tabular transparent crystals are baryte. The brown host is dolomitized limestone encrusted with limonite.
Recovered with an open space of a baryte vein of a hydrothermal deposit associated with an andesite sill. Formed in the Neogene.
Baryte from this location was described in 1951.
Other localities
- Kosaka Mine (Kuroko, Tabular)
- Mikawa Mine (Hydrothermal, Tabular)
- Yunosawa Mine (Hydrothermal, Tabular)
- Katsuyama Mine (Hydrothermal, Thick Tabular)
- Takatoku Mine (Hydrothermal, Thick Tabular)
- Kawazura Mine (Bedded Mn, Massive)