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Roscoelite

Mogurazawa Mine

Kamibishi, Hishi village, Kiryu city, Gunma pref., Japan

Roscoelite

Field of view: 3 mm. Roscoelite associated with rhodonite. The micaceous pale green crystal at the center is roscoelite. The surrounding massive pink host is Rhodonite.

Recovered from a chert-hosted bedded manganese deposit subjected to Albite-Epidote-hornfels facies contact metamorphism.

Roscoelite from this location was described in 1980.

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