Molybdenite-2H

Yanagidaira, Makioka village, Yamanashi city, Yamanashi pref., Japan

This locality is closed to collecting.

Field of view: 30 mm. Molybdenite-2H associated with quartz. The hexagonal platy silver crystals are molybdenite. The brown host is gangue quartz encrusted with limonite.

Recovered from a titanium type rare-element pegmatite associated with S-type (Ilmenite-series) granite. Formed in the late Miocene (9 Ma).

Molybdenite from this location was described in 1894.

Other localities

List of Japanese molybdenite localities

Hirase Mine (Hydrothermal)
Nakatatsu Mine (Hydrothermal)
Komaki Mine (Hydrothermal)
Otome Mine (Alpine Fissure)
Tsuruse (Pegmatite)
Taguchi Mine (Bedded Mn, AM facies)
Matsuzawa Mine (Bedded Mn, AE facies)