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Brochantite

Mozumi deposit, Kamioka Mine

Mount Ikeno, Okunoyama, Toyama city, Toyama pref., Japan

This locality is closed to collecting.

Source for copper

Brochantite

Field of view: 5 mm. A brochantite crust. The reniform green crust is brochantite. The white host is recrystallized limestone encrusted with limonite.

Recovered from a meteoric oxidation zone of a pneumatolytic deposit combined with skarn formed by contact metamorphism of I-type (Magnetite-series) granite.

Brochantite from this location was described in 1901.

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