Clinothulite
Mozumi deposit, Kamioka Mine
Mount Ikeno, Okunoyama, Toyama city, Toyama pref., Japan
IMA approved name
Clinozoisite var. clinothulite
This locality is closed to collecting.
Field of view: 5 mm. Clinothulite in garnet skarn. The pink veins are clinothulite. The massive grayish-green host is aggregate of grossular crystals.
Recovered from skarn formed by contact metamorphism of the I-type (Magnetite-series) granite. Formed in the early Paleocene (65 Ma).
Clinothulite from this location was described in 1996.
Other localities
- Iri-Karuizawa (Rhyolite, Prismatic)
- Kurotani Valley (Metamorphic, Vein)
- Onara (Metagabbro, Prismatic)
- Kamioka Mine (Skarn, Massive)