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Mordenite

Kusama Mine

Shimobe, Minobu city, Minami-Koma county, Yamanashi pref., Japan

Mordenite

Field of view: 10 mm. Radial groups of mordenite. The radial groups of white acicular crystals with a vitreous luster are mordenite.

Recovered from a mordenite vein in hyaloclastite subjected to Zeolite facies metamorphism.

Other localities

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  • Obora Path (Hyaloclastite, Acicular)
  • Futo (Basalt, Acicular)
  • Kusama Mine (Pyroclastics, Radial)
  • Mount Hokidani (Basalt, Acicular)
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