Descloizite
Mozumi deposit, Kamioka Mine
Mount Ikeno, Okunoyama, Toyama city, Toyama pref., Japan
This locality is closed to collecting.
Field of view: 5 mm. A crust of descloizite. The crust of fine grayish-brown crystals is descloizite. The translucent basement is gangue quartz. Recovered from a meteoric oxidation zone of a pneumatolytic deposit combined with skarn formed by contact metamorphism of I-type (magnetite-series) granite.
Descloizite from this location was described in 1996.