Fluorite

Higashi-Mozumi, Kamioka village, Hida city, Gifu pref., Japan

This locality is closed to collecting.

Field of view: 20 mm. Transparent fluorite. The transparent cubes are fluorite. The brown basement is gangue quartz encrusted with limonite.

Recovered from an open space of a quartz vein in a pneumatolytic deposit combined with skarn formed by contact metamorphism of I-type (magnetite-series) granite. Formed in the early Paleocene (65 Ma).

Fluorite from this location was described in 1947.

Other localities

List of Japanese fluorite localities

Hirukawa (Pegmatite, Octahedral)
Hiraiwa Mine (Hydrothermal, Dodecahedral)
Goka Mine (Hydrothermal, Massive)
Takatori Mine (Pneumatolytic, Massive)
Takane Mine (Pneumatolytic, Massive)
Kamioka Mine (Pneumatolytic Skarn, Cubic)