Schorl
Hanazono Mine
Hanazono, Hanakawa village, Kita-Ibaraki city, Ibaraki pref., Japan
Length: 10 mm. A dispatched crystal of schorl. There are striations parallel to the prism elongation.
Recovered from an NYF-Andalusite pegmatite associated with S-type (Ilmenite-series) granite.
Schorl from this location was described in 1896.
Other localities
- Taguchi Mine (Pegmatite, Prismatic)
- Asemi river (GS facies, Radial)
- Yukiiri (Pegmatite, Prismatic)
- Hanazono Mine (Pegmatite, Prismatic)
- Mount Atago (Pegmatite, Columnar)
- Chichibu Mine (Aplite, Prismatic)