Rutile
Yanagidaira, Makioka village, Yamanashi city, Yamanashi pref., Japan
This locality is closed to collecting.
Source for Titanium
Field of view: 5 mm. Rutile associated with quartz. The translucent dark red prisms are rutile. The transparent basement with a vitreous luster is gangue quartz.
Recovered from a titanium type rare-element pegmatite associated with S-type (Ilmenite-series) granite. Formed in the late Miocene (9 Ma).
Rutile from this location was described in 1982.
Other localities
- River Asemi (High-P metamorphic, Prismatic)
- Hirasawa (Alpine Fissure, Prismatic)
- Otome Mine (Hydrothermal, Prismatic)