Molybdenite

Yatsuhashi, Shitara city, Kita-Shitara county, Aichi pref., Japan

This locality is strictly closed to collecting.

Field of view: 10 mm. Molybdenite assocaited with rhodonite. The tabular silver crystals are molybdenite. The surrounding pale pink host is aggregate of rhodonite and minor amount of quartz.

Recovered from a bedded manganese deposit in pelitic schist subjected to Amphibolite facies regional metamorphism and contact metamorphism by granodiorite.

Molybdenite from this location was described in 1960.

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)