Ferberite?
Otaki, Chichibu city, Saitama pref., Japan
Source for Tungsten
Field of view: 1 mm. Black tabular ferberite(?) in calcite. The white parts in the host are calcite, and the massive yellow parts are pyrite.
Recovered from a moderately low-temperature hydrothermal deposit combined with skarn formed by contact metamorphism of I-type (magnetite-series) quartz diorite. Formed in the late Miocene (6 Ma).
Other localities
- Takatori Mine (Pneumatolytic, Tabular)
- Nishizawa Mine (Hydrothermal, Tabular)
- Chichibu Mine (Hydrothermal Skarn, Tabular)
- Ichiyanagi Mine (Pneumatolytic, Tabular)