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Rhodochrosite

Taguchi Mine

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

This locality is strictly closed to collecting.

Rhodochrosite

Field of view: 50 mm. A group of rhodochrosite. The group of bright red grains is rhodochrosite. The translucent gray part at the lower right is quartz. The massive grayish-pink part at the upper left is aggregate of rhodonite and quartz. The black crusts are manganese dioxide formed by weathering.

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

Rhodochrosite from this location was described in 1950.

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