Pyrophanite

Odaira, Tono village, Iwaki city, Fukushima pref., Japan

Field of view: 10 mm. Pyrophanite associated with rhodonite. The tabular reddish-brown crystals are pyrophanite. The massive pale pink parts around pyrophanite are aggregate of fine rhodochrosite crystals. The massive pink parts are aggregate of fine rhodonite crystals.

Recovered from a bedded manganese deposit subjected to Epidote-Amphibolite facies regional metamorphism and contact metamorphism by granite.

Pyrophanite from this location was described in 1979.

Other localities

List of Japanese pyrophanite localities

Hagidaira Mine (Mn skarn, Tabular)
Higashizawa Mine (Mn skarn, Tabular)
Taguchi Mine (Bedded Mn, AM facies)
Gozaisho Mine (Bedded Mn, EA facies)