Pyrophanite

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

This locality is strictly closed to collecting.

Field of view: 3 mm. Pyrophanite associated with rhodonite. The group of tabular black crystals is pyrophanite. The transparent parts with a vitreous luster are quartz, and the massive pink parts are rhodonite.

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

Pyrophanite from this location was described in 1960.

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)