TrekGEO > Mineral Trail > Koshinetsu region > Yamanashi pref. > Brochantite

Japanese page

Brochantite

Myoho Mine

Shimobe, Minobu city, Minami-Koma county, Yamanashi pref., Japan

Source for copper

Brochantite

Field of view: 5 mm. Tabular brochantite The fine green tabular crystals are brochantite. Tabular crystals are repeated twins by acicular crystals. The brown basement is mudstone.

Recovered from a meteoric oxidation zone of a sediment-hosted Cu deposit subjected to Prehnite-Pumpellyite facies metamorphism.

Brochantite from this location was described in 1982.

Other localities

Copyright (c) 2017 NariNari, All Rights Reserved.